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Title

Cutting-Edge Imaging of Cardiac Metastases from Neuroendocrine Tumors: Lesson from a Case Series.

Authors

El Ghannudi, Soraya; Ouvrard, Eric; Mikail, Nidaa; Leroy Freschini, Benjamin; Schindler, Thomas H.; Imperiale, Alessio

Abstract

With the increasing availability of high-performance medical imaging for the management of patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), a progressive growth of asymptomatic and incidentally detected cardiac metastases (CMs) has been observed in the recent years. In clinical practice, CMs of NENs are often incidentally detected by whole-body 68Ga-labeled somatostatin analogs or 18F-fluorodihydroxyphenylalanine positron emission tomography/computed tomography, and afterwards accurately characterized by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and/or gated cardiac computed tomography when CMR is contraindicated or not available. The interpreting physician should familiarize with the main imaging features of CM, a finding that may be encountered in NETs patients more than previously thought. Herein, we present a case series of four patients with CMs from small-intestine NETs highlighting strengths and weaknesses of a multimodality imaging approach in clinical practice.

Subjects

CARDIAC imaging; POSITRON emission tomography; CARDIAC magnetic resonance imaging; NEUROENDOCRINE tumors; COMPUTED tomography

Publication

Diagnostics (2075-4418), 2022, Vol 12, Issue 5, pN.PAG

ISSN

2075-4418

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.3390/diagnostics12051182