Correlative Imaging With FDG PET-CT and MRI of an Unusual Recurrence of Urothelial Cancer in an Ileal Conduit

The standard care for muscle-invasive carcinomas of the urinary bladder is neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radical cystectomy and a urinary diversion procedure. Recurrence of urothelial cancer in an ileal conduit is known, but is exceedingly rare, with only a few cases reported thus far. The se...

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Published in:Clinical nuclear medicine 2010-01, Vol.35 (1), p.42-43
Main Authors: Purandare, Nilendu C, Dua, Sumeet, Shah, Sneha, Gupta, Khushboo, Sharma, Anshu Rajnish, Rangarajan, Venkatesh
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Language:English
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Summary:The standard care for muscle-invasive carcinomas of the urinary bladder is neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radical cystectomy and a urinary diversion procedure. Recurrence of urothelial cancer in an ileal conduit is known, but is exceedingly rare, with only a few cases reported thus far. The sensitivity of conventional positron emission tomography (PET), using flourodeoxy glucose (FDG) as the tracer, in detection of primary as well as recurrent urothelial cancers is low. We discuss a case of recurrent urothelial cancer occurring in an ileal conduit detected on positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) and confirmed histopathologically.
ISSN:0363-9762
1536-0229
DOI:10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181c361fa