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ArticleIndian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India

Isolated Fluorodeoxyglucose Avid Right Pleural Deposits/Effusion on an F-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Patients with Ovarian Cancer - Are they almost Certainly Metastatic? An Extrapolation of Atypical Meigs' Syndrome.

Raja Senthil, Arun Visakh Ramachandran Nair, Thara Pratap, Chitrathara Kesavan

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Article in Indian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Raja SenthilDepartment of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT, VPS Lakeshore Hospital, Kochi, Kerala, India.
Arun Visakh Ramachandran NairDepartment of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT, VPS Lakeshore Hospital, Kochi, Kerala, India.
Thara PratapDepartment of Radiology, VPS Lakeshore Hospital, Kochi, Kerala, India.
Chitrathara KesavanDepartment of Surgical Oncology, VPS Lakeshore Hospital, Kochi, Kerala, India.
Lakeshore Hospital · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Majority of ovarian cancer (OC) patients are usually diagnosed at advanced stage and present with peritoneal spread/ascites. Some patients develop pleural deposits/effusion secondary to transdiaphragmatic spread of peritoneal disease/ascites. However, pleural deposits/effusion from OC in the absence of peritoneal disease/ascites are very rare. We present a case of serous carcinoma of the left ovary with fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) avid right pleural deposits and effusion in the absence of peritoneal disease/ascites on FDG positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT), showing excellent response to chemotherapy in subsequent PET/CT. We also discuss the pathophysiology of pleural abnormalities in patients with ovarian diseases, a characteristic disease spread pattern and recognition of which would help in the imaging interpretation.

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Atypical Meigs’ syndromeMeigs’ syndromeovarian malignancypleural metastases

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PMID30713379
PMCPMC6352638
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