Retro-orbital, Breast, Cardiac, Skin, and Subcutaneous Metastases of Neuroendocrine Tumor From a Tail Gut Cyst on 68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT Imaging

Tail gut cysts are rare congenital lesions developing from postanal primitive gut remnants. They are mostly benign but carry a potential of malignant transformation, such as adenocarcinoma, neuroendocrine tumor, adenosquamous carcinoma, and pseudomyxoma peritonei. We present a 39-year-old woman with...

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Veröffentlicht in:Clinical nuclear medicine 2017-05, Vol.42 (5), p.364-367
Hauptverfasser: Acar, Emine, Durak, Hatice, Kabukcuoğlu, Sare, Işiksoy, Serap, Kaya, Gamze Çapa
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Zusammenfassung:Tail gut cysts are rare congenital lesions developing from postanal primitive gut remnants. They are mostly benign but carry a potential of malignant transformation, such as adenocarcinoma, neuroendocrine tumor, adenosquamous carcinoma, and pseudomyxoma peritonei. We present a 39-year-old woman with a neuroendocrine tumor arising within a tail gut cyst. She underwent complete resection in 2011. After 4 years, she was admitted with breast nodules, left proptosis, and gaze difficulties. Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT demonstrated extensive metastases including pelvic, lymph node, adrenal gland, bone, retro-orbital, cardiac, breast, skin, and subcutaneous metastases.
ISSN:0363-9762
1536-0229
DOI:10.1097/RLU.0000000000001551