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A Practical Guide for the Production and PET/CT Imaging of 68Ga-DOTATATE for Neuroendocrine Tumors in Daily Clinical Practice
Published on: April 17, 2019
[Recurrent carcinoid tumor and 18F-DOPA PET]
M Cavet1, F Tenenbaum, C Hignette
1Service de médecine nucléaire, hôpital Cochin, 27, rue du Faubourg-St-Jacques, 75014 Paris, France.
Abstract:
We report the case of a carcinoid tumor with suspicion of recurrence on biology. Scintigraphic explorations of the whole body had a major role in diagnostic of this recurrence. OctreoScan((R)) showed an abdominal uptake corresponding to a mesenteric lymph node. PET with (18)F-DOPA also showed a liver uptake corresponding to liver metastases.
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