F-18 FDG PET/CT in a Soft Tissue Tumor with Pericardial Metastasis

Abstract

We present a patient with a massive soft tissue lesion originating from the right thigh and a pathological diagnosis reported as a spindle cell malignant mesenchymal tumor with massive pericardial metastasis with FDG-PET/BT findings.

Keywords

• : pericardium
• metastasis
• FDG
• soft tissue tumor

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