Abstract

Doc number: 117

Abstract: Cardiac tumours are relatively rare and are difficult to diagnose merely with imaging techniques. We demonstrated an unusual case of left atrial myxoma, displaying the successful detection by positron emission tomography using 2-deoxy-2-[18 F] fluoro-D-glucose (18 F-FDG PET), correlated closely to more intense and enhanced immunoreactivity with glucose transporter-1 (GLUT-1) in a substantial number of cardiac myxoma cells. Further prospective studies are needed to validate the significance of 18 F-FDG PET findings for cardiac myxoma and the association with immunohistochemical GLUT-1 expression in its tumour cells, after collecting and investigating a larger number of surgical cases examined with both of them.

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Title
Significance of 18 F-FDG PET and immunohistochemical GLUT-1 expression for cardiac myxoma
Author
Okazaki, Yukio; Yamada, Sohsuke; Kitada, Shohei; Matsunaga, Iwao; Nogami, Eijirou; Watanabe, Teruo; Sasaguri, Yasuyuki; Honma, Yutaka; Itou, Tsuyoshi
Pages
117
Publication year
2014
Publication date
2014
Publisher
BioMed Central
e-ISSN
1746-1596
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-9-117
ProQuest document ID
1542265289
Copyright
© 2014 Okazaki et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.