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Prostate cancer cardiac metastasis detected on serial imaging with [68Ga] PSMA-11 PET/CT

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This research was funded in part through the NIH/NCI Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA008708

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  1. Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Jeeban Paul Das & Randy Yeh

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All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or National Research Committee and in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. As only non-identifying PET/CT images are shown here, no informed consent was deemed necessary. The case description has been anonymized to protect the patient’s identity.

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Das, J.P., Yeh, R. Prostate cancer cardiac metastasis detected on serial imaging with [68Ga] PSMA-11 PET/CT. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 49, 3952–3953 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-022-05815-8

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