Open AccessPrimary cardiac angiosarcoma with extensive visceral metastases: Utility of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography in response assessment to sorafenib
Author(s) -
Sarthak Tripathy,
Madhavi Tripathi,
Girish Kumar Parida,
Chandrasekhar Bal,
Shamim Ahmed Shamim
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 0972-3919
pISSN - 0974-0244
DOI - 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_167_18
Subject(s) - medicine , positron emission tomography , nuclear medicine , positron emission tomography computed tomography , computed tomography , radiology , angiosarcoma , tomography , positron emission , fluorodeoxyglucose
Primary cardiac angiosarcomas although rare neoplasms remain the most common primary malignant neoplasms affecting the heart. We discuss the sequential positron-emission tomography-computed tomography findings of a 50-year-old man who was diagnosed with the metastatic cardiac angiosarcoma at the outset and developed progressive disease despite sorafenib therapy.