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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 5 | Page : 688-689 |
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Isolated caudate lobe metastasis from carcinoma breast with locoregional recurrence: Documentation by fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography
Nandigam Santosh Kumar, Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Memorial Centre Annexe, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
| Date of Web Publication | 9-Sep-2015 |
Correspondence Address:
Nandigam Santosh Kumar
Department of Radiation Oncology, Room No. 206, Resident Hostel, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Residential Complex, Basni Phase II, Jodhpur . 342 005, Rajasthan
India
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DOI: 10.4103/2278-0513.162251
How to cite this article:
Kumar NS, Basu S. Isolated caudate lobe metastasis from carcinoma breast with locoregional recurrence: Documentation by fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography. Clin Cancer Investig J 2015;4:688-9 |
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Kumar NS, Basu S. Isolated caudate lobe metastasis from carcinoma breast with locoregional recurrence: Documentation by fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography. Clin Cancer Investig J [serial online] 2015 [cited 2021 Mar 5];4:688-9. Available from: https://www.ccij-online.org/text.asp?2015/4/5/688/162251 |
Sir,
Isolated caudate lobe metastasis and its resection, though uncommon, is a definitive procedure particularly described in the context of colorectal carcinoma.[1-3] The occurrence in the setting of breast carcinoma, however, is uncommon and the present report describes such a rare case vignette detected with whole body fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) [Figure 1]. {Figure 1}
A 60-year-old female patient presented with carcinoma right breast 3 years previously and had undergone modified radical mastectomy and six cycles of chemotherapy. She was asymptomatic for 2 years until she presented lump in the right axilla for which she was evaluated with conventional CT and showed recurrent disease in the right chest wall with right axillary soft-tissue mass (apparently lymph nodal origin), which confirmed on histopathology to be metastatic lymph nodal mass from carcinoma breast. The patient was further evaluated with FDG-PET/CT whole body survey for distant metastases. The 18 fludeoxyglucose-FDG PET/CT demonstrated hypermetabolism at the site of skin and subcutaneous thickening consistent with locoregional disease recurrence. There was evidence of irregular soft-tissue lymph nodal mass in the right axilla which was infiltrating the lateral chest wall and had shown SUVmax 2.23 g/ml. Additional finding was the detection of hypermetabolism in the caudate lobe of the liver (SUVmax 1.23 g/ml), in the given case background of biopsy proven large volume locoregional recurrence, suggested metastatic disease involvement from breast carcinoma. The patient was started on chemotherapy and due to follow-up imaging sometime later.
Tanaka et al.[4] retrospectively reviewed the clinicopathological data for 13 consecutive patients with colorectal metastases to the hepatic caudate lobe; in this multivariate analysis study comparing caudate lobe metastasis to metastasis at other hepatic locations, hepatectomy with clear surgical margins was found to be difficult and negatively impacted hepatic disease-free survival.
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