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Positron emission tomography: a false negative result in cystic encephalic mestastases from a small cell bronchial carcinoma

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Lung cancer represents one of the most common malignant diseases. Many investigations are used in the staging study including, most recently, PET. We present a case of cystic cerebral metastases (with no oedema) from a small cell carcinoma which were not detected by PET.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Elda General Hospital, Alicante, Spain

    David Orts Giménez, Antonia Galán Dávila, Gaspar Esquerdo Galiana, Eleuterio Llorca Martínez, Ana Belso Candela, Javier Mallada, Cristina Llorca Ferrándiz & José Manuel Cervera

  2. Radiodiagnosis Department, Elche University Genernal Hospital, Alicante, Spain

    Rosa Jiménez Yáñez

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Giménez, D.O., Yáñez, R.J., Dávila, A.G. et al. Positron emission tomography: a false negative result in cystic encephalic mestastases from a small cell bronchial carcinoma. Clin Transl Oncol 8, 618–620 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12094-006-0070-4

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