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- FIGURE 1.
A 62-y-old patient with larynx cancer. (A) Head and neck CT image of patient showing transaxial (left), sagittal (middle), and coronal (right) slices. (B) Head and neck 99mTc-glucarate SPECT image. (C) SPECT/CT fusion image. CT images show thickening of soft tissues of left side of subglottis with eccentricity and luminal stenosis. Fusion images show intense focal uptake in that region.
- FIGURE 2.
A 65-y-old patient with clinical suspicion of local relapse from previously resected sclerosant basocellular epithelioma in right nasogenian fold. Patient underwent right maxillary antrectomy. (A) CT images show surgical sequel at roof of right maxillary sinus with mucosal thickening of cavity. (B and C) 99mTc-glucarate shows intense uptake (B) that in fusion images corresponded to location of pterigomaxilar fossa (C). Lesion was further confirmed as local relapse by biopsy.
Tables
Patient 99mTc glucarate Number Primary tumor location Age (y) Sex pN Stage after surgery of primary tumor Size (cm)* Pathology Primary lesion or local relapse Regional node involvement 1 Oropharynx cancer 55 M N0 IV 5.5 MDEC + − 2 Supraglottic tumor 46 M N2c IVA 3.2 MDEC + + 3 Nasopharynx tumor 61 M N0 IV 4.6 Undifferentiated carcinoma + − 4 Larynx cancer 62 M N0 IV 3.8 WDEC + − 5 Glottic and supraglottic cancer 80 M N0 III 1.8 WDEC + − 6 Carcinoma of right retromolar trigone 57 M N1 IV 6.2 WDEC + + 7 Tonsil cancer 55 M N1 IVA 3.8 WDEC + + 8 Larynx cancer 66 M N3 IV 3.7 WDEC + + 9 Right inferior maxillary tumor 67 M N0 IV 3.9 WDEC + − 10 Right nasogenian fold tumor (postsurgery) 65 M Local relapse? IV 4.8 Sclerosant basocellular epithelioma + − 11 Oropharynx tumor 50 M Local relapse? IVA 2.2 PDEC + − ↵* Greatest dimension.
MDEC = moderately differentiated epidermoid carcinoma; WDEC = well-differentiated epidermoid carcinoma; PDEC = poorly differentiated epidermoid carcinoma.
