TY - JOUR
T1 - Imaging thrombus in cancer patients with FDG PET-CT
AU - Sharma, Punit
AU - Kumar, Rakesh
AU - Singh, Harmandeep
AU - Jeph, Sunil
AU - Patnecha, Manish
AU - Reddy, Rama Mohan
AU - Naswa, Niraj
AU - Bal, Chandrasekhar
AU - Malhotra, Arun
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - The incidence of thrombosis in patients with underlying primary malignancy is high. The thrombus may be the more common venous thromboembolism (VTE) or the rare tumour thrombus. VTE is a common entity in cancer patients and is managed with anticoagulant therapy, while tumour thrombosis requires aggressive multimodality management. Conventional imaging modalities, including ultrasonography, venography, contrast-enhanced computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging, are used routinely in such cases. With its increasing use in oncology, more and more such thrombi are encountered on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography- computed tomography (PET-CT). Accurate characterisation of these lesions is of utmost importance owing to complementary functional information which it provides. FDG PET-CT has been found to be helpful in this context. This pictorial review discusses and illustrates the imaging features of thrombosis on FDG PET-CT.
AB - The incidence of thrombosis in patients with underlying primary malignancy is high. The thrombus may be the more common venous thromboembolism (VTE) or the rare tumour thrombus. VTE is a common entity in cancer patients and is managed with anticoagulant therapy, while tumour thrombosis requires aggressive multimodality management. Conventional imaging modalities, including ultrasonography, venography, contrast-enhanced computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging, are used routinely in such cases. With its increasing use in oncology, more and more such thrombi are encountered on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography- computed tomography (PET-CT). Accurate characterisation of these lesions is of utmost importance owing to complementary functional information which it provides. FDG PET-CT has been found to be helpful in this context. This pictorial review discusses and illustrates the imaging features of thrombosis on FDG PET-CT.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11604-011-0016-9
DO - 10.1007/s11604-011-0016-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 22205138
AN - SCOPUS:84861849279
SN - 1867-1071
VL - 30
SP - 95
EP - 104
JO - Japanese Journal of Radiology
JF - Japanese Journal of Radiology
IS - 2
ER -
