Why the study?
Does F-18 FDG PET imaging help differentiate cardiac tumor from thrombus in a patient with a right ventricular mass?
Population
1 patient with metastatic breast carcinoma and a right ventricular mass seen on transthoracic echocardiogram…
Design
Case_report
Authors
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FDG PET may aid differentiation of metabolic cardiac tumors from thrombus in RV masses; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Does F-18 FDG PET imaging help differentiate cardiac tumor from thrombus in a patient with a right ventricular mass?
F-18 FDG PET imaging can successfully identify and differentiate a highly metabolic cardiac tumor from a thrombus.
Plutchok et al. (1998) studied this question.
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