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A case of colon cancer incidentally detected by 18F-choline PET/CT
Ferdinando F Calabria1, Sonia Crusco, Carmelo Cicciò
1From the *Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS); †Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology, Hospital F. Veneziale, Isernia; ‡Department of Diagnostic and Molecular Imaging, Interventional Radiology and Radiotherapy, University "Tor Vergata," PTV Foundation, Policlinic "Tor Vergata"; and §Department of Biopathology and Diagnostic Imaging, University "Tor Vergata," Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
A 65-year-old man had restaging of prostate cancer with an 18F-choline PET/CT, which revealed focal uptake in a thickened posterior wall of sigmoid colon. Biopsy demonstrated colon cancer. Incidental colorectal 18F-choline uptake should be further investigated with histological analysis.
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