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Hypermetabolic Cerebral Metastases of Cardiac Myxoma on FDG PET/CT.

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A 66-year-old woman with a history of surgical resection of left atrial myxoma 6 months ago presented with multiple brain lesions with MRI. An FDG PET/CT was performed for further… Click to show full abstract

A 66-year-old woman with a history of surgical resection of left atrial myxoma 6 months ago presented with multiple brain lesions with MRI. An FDG PET/CT was performed for further evaluation. The images showed that cerebral tumors had variable and increased FDG uptake in general, and no other abnormal FDG-avid lesions were noted. The tumor of right occipital lobe was resected and confirmed as metastatic cardiac myxoma on histology.

Keywords: hypermetabolic cerebral; fdg pet; cardiac myxoma

Journal Title: Clinical Nuclear Medicine
Year Published: 2020

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