PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Thapa, Pradeep
AU  - BASU, SANDIP
TI  - Diagnosis of Dual Malignancy by <sup>18</sup>F-FDG-PET/CT in the setting of Paraneoplastic Cerebellar Degeneration
AID  - 10.2967/jnmt.115.158659
DP  - 2015 Aug 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - jnmt.115.158659
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/early/2015/08/11/jnmt.115.158659.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/early/2015/08/11/jnmt.115.158659.full
AB  - A rare case of paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (with detectable anti-neuronal antibody anti-Yo) is described, where 18F-FDG-PET/CT aided in detection of two synchronous malignancies (one thyroid cancer and the other breast cancer); interestingly, the primary breast malignancy was non-FDG avid and was detected through the presence of a metastatic FDG-avid axillary lymph node. Surgery for both was undertaken in the same sitting and there was improvement of the neurological features soon after the surgical removal of the malignancies.