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Microcalcified Hepatic Metastases Incidentally Detected on F-18 NaF PET/CT in a Patient with Prostate Cancer

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F-18 NaF PET/CT evaluation has gained importance in recent years. Achievements from F-18 NaF PET/CT are: higher sensitivity of positron imaging, higher target background ratio with higher tracer accumulation in bone hydroxyapatite and higher specificity through CT correlation. These properties have also given directions to new research fields based on imaging microcalcifications, very recently. A limited number of cases have reported the F-18 NaF uptake in macrocalcified soft tissue metastases. Although the presence of microcalcification was not proved; accumulation of F-18 NaF in the metastatic brain lesion with no visible calcification on the CT, in a patient with ductal breast carcinoma has also been reported. Herein we present a patient with microcalcified hepatic metastasis of prostate cancer incidentally detected on F-18 NaF PET/CT which was confirmed with histochemical staining.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Trakya University Medical Faculty, 22030, Edirne, Turkey

    Gul Ege Aktas, Ali Sarıkaya & Selin Soyluoglu Demir

  2. Department of Pathology, Trakya University Medical Faculty, Edirne, Turkey

    Nuray Can

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All procedures performed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional review board and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments. All subjects in the study gave written informed consent or the institutional review board waived the need to obtain informed consent.

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Aktas, G.E., Sarıkaya, A., Can, N. et al. Microcalcified Hepatic Metastases Incidentally Detected on F-18 NaF PET/CT in a Patient with Prostate Cancer. Nucl Med Mol Imaging 51, 364–367 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13139-016-0429-6

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