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Dinesh SM, Suneetha B, Sen A. A rare case of primary malignant melanoma of clivus with extensive skeletal metastasis demonstrated on 18F-FDG PET/CT. Indian J Nucl Med. 2013;28(4):234-6doi: 10.4103/0972-3919.121971.
Dinesh, S. M., Suneetha, B., & Sen, A. (2013). A rare case of primary malignant melanoma of clivus with extensive skeletal metastasis demonstrated on 18F-FDG PET/CT. Indian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India, 28(4), 234-6. https://doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.121971
Dinesh, Sonia Mahajan, et al. "A rare case of primary malignant melanoma of clivus with extensive skeletal metastasis demonstrated on 18F-FDG PET/CT." Indian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India vol. 28,4 (2013): 234-6. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.121971
Dinesh SM, Suneetha B, Sen A. A rare case of primary malignant melanoma of clivus with extensive skeletal metastasis demonstrated on 18F-FDG PET/CT. Indian J Nucl Med. 2013 Oct;28(4):234-6. doi: 10.4103/0972-3919.121971. PMID: 24379536; PMCID: PMC3866671.
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Indian J Nucl Med. 2013 Oct;28(4):234-6. doi: 10.4103/0972-3919.121971.

A rare case of primary malignant melanoma of clivus with extensive skeletal metastasis demonstrated on 18F-FDG PET/CT.

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

Sonia Mahajan Dinesh, Batchu Suneetha, Ashok Sen

Affiliations

  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine and Positron Emission Tomography Imaging, Medanta-The Medicity, Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

PMID: 24379536 PMCID: PMC3866671 DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.121971

Abstract

Malignant melanoma of the clivus is a rare entity, for which there is little evidence-based literature for guiding clinicians to understand the importance of disease staging via noninvasive imaging strategy. This report highlights the case of a 55-year-old lady with histopathologically confirmed melanocytic melanoma of the clivus-postoperative status, with multiple skeletal metastasis, demonstrated on 2-deoxy-2-[18F] fluoro-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT scan). The experience gained with this patient demonstrates the feasibility and usefulness of this noninvasive application in accurate staging and hence, correct decision making regarding further treatment.

Keywords: 18F-FDG PET/CT; clivus; intracranial malignant melanoma

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