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Magnetic Resonance Imaging Assessment of Carcinogen-induced Murine Bladder Tumors
Published on: March 29, 2019
C-choline positron emission tomography in bladder cancer: report of four cases
Soichiro Yoshida1, Kazuaki Nakagomi, Shuichi Goto
1Department of Urology Hamamatsu Medical Center, Hamamatsu, Japan. yoshidas@saitama-med.ac.jp
Abstract:
Little work has been done with positive emission tomography (PET) in bladder tumors because high urinary excretion of (18)F-FDG makes visualization of the bladder tumor difficult. (11)C-choline has recently been reported as a new tracer which lacks urinary radioactivity. We report the result of (11)C-choline PET in four patients with invasive bladder tumors. In one case, (11)C-choline PET could detect bladder tumor effectively without urinary activity and bone metastasis despite negative bone scintigraphy. On the other hand, an intense accumulation of the tracer in the bladder hampered the interpretation on PET scanning in three patients. The mechanisms of the (11)C-choline accumulation in the bladder were reported to be due to inflammatory and proliferative changes in the mucosa of the bladder from previous catheterization or other factors. Further study is necessary to prove the value of (11)C-choline PET for detecting primary bladder cancer and bone metastasis.
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