PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Al-faham, Zaid
AU  - Al-Katib, Sayf
AU  - Jaiyesimi, Ishmael
AU  - Bhavnagri, Sharukh J
TI  - The Evaluation of Inflammatory Breast Cancer with F-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography and Review of The Literature
AID  - 10.2967/jnmt.114.148494
DP  - 2015 Nov 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - jnmt.114.148494
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/early/2015/11/16/jnmt.114.148494.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/early/2015/11/16/jnmt.114.148494.full
AB  - Inflammatory breast cancer is a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer characterized by dermal lymphatic invasion and tumor embolization resulting in erythema and edema of the breast. In many cases, by the time of diagnosis, there is already distant metastasis. Mammography, US, CT and MRI are usually preformed for initial staging; however, PET/CT can also be used for initial staging as it offers additional diagnostic information.