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Lung Carcinoma

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History: Patient presents with 3 weeks of fatigue, night sweats, productive cough with 5–6 teaspoons of blood-tinged sputum per day, and dyspnea on exertion. Chest X-ray found large right-sided chest mass. Patient was admitted to hospital with hemoptysis. Chest CT showed large paratracheal mass invading the right main stem bronchus and trachea. Biopsy of the mass was performed, and pathology revealed non-small-cell lung cancer.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine Oncology Institute of Vojvodina Sremska Kamenica Technical Faculty “Mihajlo Pupin” Zrenjanin, University of Novi Sad, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia

    Jasna Mihailovic M.D., Ph.D. (Assoc Professor & Head)

  2. Division of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA

    Stanley J. Goldsmith M.D.

  3. Radiology & Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA

    Stanley J. Goldsmith M.D. (Professor)

  4. Consultant Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine Physician, St Vincents University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

    Ronan P. Killeen M.D.

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Mihailovic, J., Goldsmith, S.J., Goldsmith, S.J., Killeen, R.P. (2012). Lung Carcinoma. In: FDG PET/CT in Clinical Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29866-0_5

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