Case Report
Lighting on PET Scan-Not Always Cancer
Valentin Zumstein*, Martin Bolli and Michael Manz
Department of Surgery, 27 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, St. 8 Claraspital Basel, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
- Corresponding Author:
- Valentin Zumstein
Department of Surgery, 27 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
St. 8 Claraspital Basel, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
Tel: 0041616858585
E-mail: valentin.zumstein@gmail.com
Received Date: October 19, 2014; Accepted Date: January 24, 2015; Published Date: January 30, 2015
Citation: Zumstein V, Bolli M, Manz M (2015) Lighting on PET Scan-Not Always Cancer. J Gastrointest Dig Syst 5:250. doi:10.4172/2161-069X.1000250
Copyright: © 2015 Zumstein V, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
A PET scan showing a hypermetabolic focus in the gastric antrum is suspicious of gastric cancer. Nevertheless other reasons should be kept in mind in the differential of gastric tumors as for example gastric mucosal prolapse polyps.
Presentation of case: A 84-year-old woman had been scoped at a referring hospital due to lower gastrointestinal bleeding. The external gastroscopy revealed an indistinct tumor in the area of the gastric antrum.
An obtained PET scan showed a hypermetabolic focus in the antrum. At our hospital we repeated gastroscopy, the antral mass had no malignant aspect but looked like thickened mucosal fold partially prolapsing in the duodenal bulb, the biopsies ruled out cancer and showed polypous foveolar hyperplasia consistent to an antral mucosal prolapse polyp. The patient could be discharged on PPI therapy.
