Clinical application of 18F-FDG PET/CT for cardiac neoplasm diagnosis

VernacularTitle:18F-FDG PET/CT在心脏肿瘤诊断中的临床应用
Author: Long SUN ; Maoqing JIANG ; Long ZHAO ; Zuoming LUO ; Hua WU
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Heart neoplasms; Tomography,emission-computed; Tomography,X-ray computed; Deoxyglucose
From: Chinese Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2013;(3):175-178
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To explore the clinical value of 18F-FDG PET/CT in the diagnosis of cardiac neoplasm.Methods Between January 2007 and December 2011,18F-FDG PET/CT was performed in 8649 patients in our hospital,and 14 (0.16％ ; 11 males,3 females,average age 46.9 (35-68) years) patients were diagnosed with cardiac neoplasm.18F-FDG PET/CT data of those 14 patients were retrospectively analyzed.Final diagnoses were confirmed by either histopathology (n =5) or follow-up (n =9).Results Accurate tumor localization and diagnoses were made by 18 F-FDG PET/CT in all 14 patients.Among them,13 were malignant (2(14.3％,2/14) primary and 11(78.6％,11/14) metastatic tumors (8 HCC,2 lung cancer,1 esophageal cancer) ; SUVmax 3.2-10.7) and 1 (7.1％,1/14) was benign (myxoma).Conclusion 18F-FDG PET/CT is useful for the detection and staging of primary malignant and metastatic cardiac neoplasms.