Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Extrapulmonary small cell sarcinoma: involvement of the brain without evidence of extracranial malignancy by serial PET/CT scans | BioMed Central World Journal of Surgical Oncology Open Access Case report Extrapulmonary small cell sarcinoma involvement of the brain without evidence of extracranial malignancy by serial PET CT scans Christopher N Hueser 1 Nghi C Nguyen2 Medhat Osman2 Necat Havlioglu3 and Anjali J Patel4 Address Department of Internal Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology St. Louis University Hospital St. Louis MO 63110 USA 2Department of Nuclear Medicine St. Louis University Hospital St. Louis MO 63110 USA 3Department of Pathology St. Louis University Hospital St. Louis MO 63110 USA and 4Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care St. Louis University Hospital St. Louis MO 63110 USA Email Christopher N Hueser - huesercn@ Nghi C Nguyen - nguyenn@ Medhat Osman - osmanm@ Necat Havlioglu - havlilglun@ Anjali J Patel - patela4@ Corresponding author Published 25 September 2008 Received 15 November 2007 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6 102 doi 1477-7819-6-102 Accepted 25 September 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 102 2008 Hueser et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Background Extrapulmonary small cell carcinoma EPSCC involving the brain is a rare manifestation of an uncommon tumor type. Case presentation We report a 59 year-old Caucasian female diagnosed with an EPSCC involving the left parietal lobe without detectable extracranial primary tumor followed by serial positron emission tomography computed tomography PET CT imaging. Histopathological examination at both initial presentation and recurrence revealed small cell carcinoma. Serial PET CT scans of
