Unusual Horner’s Syndrome in Recurrent Breast Cancer: Evaluation Using 18F-FDG PET/CT
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- 作者：Sohyun Park ; Tae Sung Kim ; Seok-ki Kim
- 关键词：FDG PET/CT ; Horner’s syndrome ; Breast cancer ; Recurrence
- 刊名：Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：March 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：51
- 期：1
- 页码：93-96
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- 刊物主题：Nuclear Medicine; Imaging / Radiology; Orthopedics; Cardiology; Oncology;
- 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- ISSN：1869-3482
- 卷排序：51
文摘
18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is a widely used imaging modality in the initial diagnosis of cancer, treatment response evaluation and detection of recurrence. Herein, we present the case of a 39-year-old female who presented right ptosis on the follow-up of breast cancer after surgery. Clinicians suspected Horner’s syndrome, and the patient underwent FDG PET/CT for the evaluation of recurrence that could cause Horner’s syndrome. FDG PET/CT demonstrated a focal hypermetabolic lesion in the right cervicothoracic junction area, corresponding to the preganglionic cervical sympathetic trunk. A subsequent needle biopsy was done, and the lesion was confirmed as metastatic ductal carcinoma. In this case, we could detect the exact location of the recurring lesion that caused Horner’s syndrome using FDG PET/CT.