Published 2014 | Version v1
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Carcinoma of unknown primary of neuroendocrine origin: Accurate detection of primary with 68Ga-labelled [1, 4, 7, 10-tetraazacyclododecane-1, 4, 7, 10-tetraacetic acid]-1-NaI3-Octreotide positron emission tomography/computed tomography enterography

  • 1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (India)

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68Ga-labelled [1, 4, 7, 10-tetraazacyclododecane-1, 4, 7, 10-tetraacetic acid]-1-NaI3-Octreotide (68Ga-DOTANOC) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is an excellent modality in patients with carcinoma of unknown primary of neuroendocrine origin. Most of the primary lesions are located in mid gut region where the lesions have poor resolution due to undistended and overlapping intestinal loops and motility-related artifacts. Although PET/CT enteroclysis, enterography and colonography have been described with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose, PET/CT enterography with68Ga-DOTANOC has not been described in the literature. Here, we present a case where68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT enterography was useful in identifying the primary neuroendocrine tumor lesion in small intestine with accurate delineation

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.130320; Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996769

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Journal Title
Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Journal Volume
29
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 122-123
ISSN
0972-3919

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PMCID: PMC3996769; PMID: 24761071; PUBLISHER-ID: IJNM-29-122; OAI: oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3996769; Copyright: (c) Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine; This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.