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

Contiguous Multilevel Vertebral Metastasis in Carcinoma Breast Mimicking Spondylodiscitis.

Vivek Kumar Saini, Alen Elias Mammoottil, Manish Ora, Sanjay Gambhir, Aftab Hassan Nazar

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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. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vivek Kumar SainiDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Alen Elias MammoottilDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Manish OraDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Sanjay GambhirDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Aftab Hassan NazarDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 59-year old female presented with a lump in the right breast for 6 months. She developed progressively increasing backache for 3 months. Magnetic resonance imaging spine was suggestive of hypointense heterogeneous signal intensity in multiple dorsal vertebrae (D3-D8) and suggestive of Pott's spine. Sonomammography suggested a lesion with irregular margin in the retro-areolar region. Fine-needle aspiration cytology was infiltrating duct carcinoma. Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron-emission tomography-computed tomography revealed mass in the right breast with axillary lymph node. FDG-avid lytic destructive contiguous lesion was noted in mid-dorsal vertebrae. Apart from it, FDG-avid lytic lesion was also noted in the right iliac bone. The patient underwent vertebral lesion biopsy consistent with metastatic breast carcinoma. This case report demonstrates rare contiguous involvement of multiple vertebrae masquerading Pott's spine.

Indexed as

Carcinoma breastfluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomographymimickingmultilevel vertebral metastasisspondylodiscitistuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID34658560
PMCPMC8481853
OpenAlexW3200345780

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