Targeted Sacral Biopsy With Portable Gamma Camera and Intraoperative Gamma Probe
Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: ABSTRACT: A 58-year-old man with dysphagia and trismus symptoms presented a lobulated tumor in the right tonsil and ipsilateral laterocervical stony adenopathies in the physical examination. He had prostate carcinoma as clinical precedent. The tonsilar lesion showed focal FDG uptake (SUV max , 10.89) on PET/CT and increased glycemic metabolism in the left sacral wing (SUV max , 10.90) without clear morphological lesion in CT. There was also uptake of the tracer in sacrum in the bone scan. Metastatic involvement was suspected, requiring radioguided biopsy to determine the etiology. Due to radioguided biopsy, histological analysis of the metastasis was performed, with epidermoid carcinoma metastasis diagnosis.
Source: Clinical Nuclear Medicine
Authors: Sandra Rama Alonso, Eva Campaña Díaz, Juan Francisco Blanco Blanco, Paloma García-Talavera San Miguel, Felipe Gómez-Caminero López
Institutions: Universidad de Salamanca, Complejo Hospitalario de Salamanca
Language: English
Subfield: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4401638254