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A patient with a right latero-cervical swelling of three-months history was observed. Fine needle aspiration biopsy showed the presence of metastases of epidermoid carcinoma moderately differentiated. No signs or symptoms of head and neck neoplasm were presents. After instrumental evaluation the primary neoplasm was localised at the left lung and metastases were also localised in the right submandibular gland. Although metastases from pulmonary epidermoid carcinoma are normally bloodborne, in this case lymphatic metastases involving cervical areas were present, probably secondarily the submandibular involvement.
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PMID:Cervical metastases from pulmonary epidermoid carcinoma. 992 8

PET/CT offers advantages over PET alone, which is limited by poor anatomic localization and CT alone, which provides morphologic data only. Retrospective fusion of separately acquired PET and CT images allows for potential fusion misregistration in the mobile head and neck between imaging sessions. Indications for PET/CT include recurrent neoplasm, tumor surveillance, and staging. This article will focus on recurrent head and neck neoplasm including, head and neck cancer, thyroid cancer, recurrent skull base tumor. PET/CT may change management in facilitating earlier detection of recurrence than is possible with conventional CT or MR imaging, in guiding biopsy, and in detecting second primary sites and distant metastases. Limitations of PET/CT include physiologic uptake, metabolically active tissue, and muscle contraction during uptake phase. PET/CT, however, is better equipped than is PET alone to mitigate these limitations by precisely localizing FDG uptake to anatomic structures. In addition, small lesions (< 1 cm) may be below scanner resolution and, therefore, a lower SUV (that is < or = 3), may suggest neoplasm. Recent treatment may result in false negative findings, especially when PET is performed within 4 months of radiation therapy. Finally, tumors of low metabolic activity (e.g., salivary gland tumors) may be prone to false negative results. In the future, PET/CT imaging will become more useful in staging head and neck cancer with improved scanner resolution. Development of specific tumor markers may allow for tumor-specific ligands that will increase sensitivity to head and neck neoplasia. Treatment targeting for radiation therapy is an application that is likely to become widely used.
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PMID:PET/CT imaging in recurrent head and neck cancer. 1287 12

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has rapidly become the preferred treatment for symptomatic cholecystolithiasis. However, the procedure is associated with a number of complications, one of which is the spillage of gallstones into the peritoneal cavity. Unretrieved gallstones may cause a wide variety of complications such as abscess, adhesion and small-bowel obstruction, or they may remain asymptomatic and harmless. In the latter case, spilled gallstones in the peritoneal spaces may cause diagnostic difficulty or mimic peritoneal metastasis. We present the computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging features of intra-abdominal gallstone spillage in a case with head and neck neoplasm. Awareness of radiologic features of dropped intraperitoneal gallstones is necessary as they may be mistaken for peritoneal metastases.
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PMID:Intra-abdominal spilled gallstones simulating peritoneal metastasis: CT and MR imaging features (2008: 1b). 1835 58

Intracranial metastatic lesions arise through a number of routes. Therefore, they can involve any part of the central nervous system and their imaging appearances vary. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a key role in lesion detection, lesion delineation, and differentiation of metastases from other intracranial disease processes. This article is a reasoned pictorial review illustrating the many faces of intracranial metastatic lesions based on the location - intra-axial metastases, calvarial metastases, dural metastases, leptomeningeal metastases, secondary invasion of the meninges by metastatic disease involving the calvarium and skull base, direct or perineural intracranial extension of head and neck neoplasm, and other unusual manifestations of intracranial metastases. We also review the role of advanced MRI to distinguish metastases from high-grade gliomas, tumor-mimicking lesions such as brain abscesses, and delayed post-radiation changes in radiosurgically treated patients.
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PMID:Intracranial metastases: spectrum of MR imaging findings. 2308 58