Bladder Cancer Incidentally Detected by Diffusion-Weighted Whole-Body Imaging with Background Suppression: A Report of Two Cases
- VernacularTitle:DWIBS（背景抑制広範囲拡散強調画像）で二次的に膀胱癌が発見された2例
- Author:
Yasuo KOSUGI
1
;
Noboru FUKUHARA
2
;
Kunihiro IWATA
1
;
Taito ASAHINA
1
Author Information
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine 2018;67(4):516-
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
- Abstract: A 58-year-old woman who underwent surgery for breast cancer experienced recurrence in the ipsilateral breast during follow-up after postoperative radiotherapy and was scheduled for additional mastectomy. An 81-year-old man was found to have bilateral lung cancer during follow-up after coronary artery bypass grafting. Both patients underwent diffusion-weighted whole-body imaging with background suppression (DWIBS) for whole-body cancer screening, which led to incidental detection of bladder cancer that was adequately treated. In both cases, the lesions were unlikely to have been detected using positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT). This suggested that DWIBS might be more useful than PET/CT for whole-body cancer screening.
