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PET scanning using FDG successfully demonstrated a right hilar non-small cell lung carcinoma with intracardiac extension into the left atrium in a patient presenting with a TIA.
Case Report (n=1)
FDG-PET scanning can effectively visualize intracardiac extension of lung cancer in patients presenting with embolic events such as TIA.
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FDG-PET may detect intracardiac lung cancer extension in TIA; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Intracardiac tumors are unusual and can originate within the heart or spread from other sites. This is a report of a patient who presented with a TIA, and during the subsequent stroke workup, a right hilar nonsmall cell lung carcinoma was discovered. The tumor had extended into the left atrium through a pulmonary vein. The hilar tumor as well as intracardiac extension were demonstrated by PET scanning using FDG.
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Gates et al. (2006) conducted a case report in Intracardiac extension of lung cancer (n=1). PET scanning using FDG was evaluated. PET scanning using FDG successfully demonstrated a right hilar non-small cell lung carcinoma with intracardiac extension into the left atrium in a patient presenting with a TIA.
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