Looking beyond the myocardium: Incidental detection of malignant neoplasm through ectopic fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose uptake on cardiac positron emission tomography viability imaging

J Nucl Cardiol. 2026 Feb 24:102676. doi: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2026.102676. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Afroza Akhter¹, Shaila Sharmin², Farhana Rahman², Rawnak Afrin², Sadia Hossain², Tanvirul Hasan², Shankar Kumar Biswas²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), Dhaka, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Bangladesh. Electronic address: afrozainmas@gmail.com.
² Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), Dhaka, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Bangladesh.

PMID: 41747819
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2026.102676

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Keywords: (18)F-FDG PET; Cardiac PET viability; Extracardiac findings; Incidental findings; Metastatic lung cancer.

Publication types

Case Reports