FDG PET/CT appearance of portal vein tumor thrombus in the gastric primitive neuroectodermal tumor: uncommon primary tumor site with rare finding.

Abstract

Gastric primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) is a very rare tumor. There are only a few case reports in the literature. Although cases with FDG uptake in the portal venous tumor thrombus (PVTT) in different primary malignancies have been evaluated before, the coexistence of PNET and PVTT has not been reported yet. Herein, we report the case of a gastric PNET with PVTT, which resolved after 3 cycles of polychemotherapy except for a residual tumor focus in the gastric corpus.

• Authors: Mustafa Aras, Fuat Dede, Faysal Dane, Bilge Aktas, Halil Turgut Turoglu
• Journal: Clinical nuclear medicine (Clin Nucl Med) Vol. 38 Issue 1 Pg. 47-9 (Jan 2013) ISSN: 1536-0229 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 23242047 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Antineoplastic Agents
• Fluorodeoxyglucose F18

Topics

• Antineoplastic Agents (therapeutic use)
• Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
• Humans
• Male
• Multimodal Imaging
• Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive (diagnostic imaging, drug therapy)
• Portal Vein (diagnostic imaging, pathology)
• Positron-Emission Tomography
• Stomach Neoplasms (diagnostic imaging, drug therapy)
• Thrombosis (complications, diagnostic imaging, pathology)
• Tomography, X-Ray Computed
• Ultrasonography
• Young Adult