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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol 2010; 31(04): 148-150
DOI: 10.4103/0971-5851.76202
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Staring secondaries, where is the primary?

P Shanmuga Sundaram
Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET CT, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin, Kerala, India
,
S Padma
Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET CT, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin, Kerala, India
,
Jay Kumar Rai
Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET CT, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin, Kerala, India
,
Vijay Harish
Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET CT, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin, Kerala, India
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Abstract

An asymptomatic issueless young staff nurse underwent pre-employment health screening and USG abdomen showed multiple hypodense lesions in liver. Further screening with whole body positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scan showed significantly FDG avid mass involving most of the right lobe of liver with multiple large FDG avid lymph nodal metastases. Unsuspected focal abnormal, FDG avid, hyperdense mural nodule was seen in uterus, which is the site of primary.

Keywords

Metastases - metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma - positron emission tomography-computed tomography imaging - unknown primary - uterine tumor


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Article published online:
16 August 2021

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