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Detection of Isolated Diffuse Cutaneous and Subcutaneous Metastasis of Breast Cancer on FDG-PET/CT
Author(s) -
Müge Öner Tamam,
Özge Vural Topuz,
Tuğba Rezan Ekmekçi,
Gülçin Kamalı,
Mehmet Mülazımoğlu
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
molecular imaging and radionuclide therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 2147-1959
pISSN - 2146-1414
DOI - 10.4274/mirt.10820
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , metastasis , breast cancer metastasis , nuclear medicine , cancer , radiology , bone metastasis
Cutaneous metastasis from internal malignancies are rare with a reported incidence between 0.7% and 10%. The most\udcommon tumor that metastasize to the skin is breast cancer. We present a 53-year-old woman with a history of bilateral\udbreast cancer who underwent FDG-PET/CT for re-staging, which demonstrated isolated cutaneous and subcutaneous chest\udwall metastases. Histopathologic verification confirmed invasive ductal carcinoma invasion of the dermis and the lymphatic\udvessel

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