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Query: UMLS:C0034065 (
pulmonary embolism
)
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The case presented is a 25-year-old male with a malignant neuroectodermal tumour on the left chest wall (
Askin tumour
), treated with surgery after neoadyuvant chemotherapy and followed by consolidation chemotherapy. After 9 years of disease free survival, the patient developed an acute
pulmonary embolism
. The echocardiogram, thoracic CT, and cardiac MRI scans revealed a mass in the right atrium. Recurrence of an
Askin tumour
versus an atrium myxoma was suspected.
18
F-FDG PET/CT showed an intense hypermetabolic right atrium mass with extension to the right ventricle highly suggestive of malignancy. The result of the histopathology examination after biopsy and subsequently exeresis of the right atrium mass was consistent with a metastasis of the primary tumour.
...
PMID:
18
F-FDG PET/CT in a cardiac metastasis in a patient with history of malignant neuroectodermal tumour of the chest wall: Case report and review of the literature. 2864 25
