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Implantation and Monitoring by PET/CT of an Orthotopic Model of Human Pleural Mesothelioma in Athymic Mice
Published on: December 21, 2019
Incarcerated inguinal hernia from metastatic pleural mesothelioma: PET/CT imaging
Vien X Nguyen1, Ba D Nguyen, Panol C Ram
1Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ 85259, USA. nguyen.ba@mayo.edu
Abstract:
PET/CT provides a comprehensive staging, post-therapeutic surveillance, and outcome prognosis of malignant pleural mesothelioma based on its hypermetabolic behavior. This ability of PET may allow the monitoring, prediction, and detection of uncommon distant gastrointestinal clinical manifestations of this disease. The authors present a case of PET/CT imaging of pleural mesothelioma disseminating to the abdomen and pelvis, inducing an incarcerated inguinal hernia.
