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My mom has an ill defined hypoechoic mass lesion at porta hepatis which was showe in ultrasound but PET scan done a month back showed nothing about it. CT scan also shows the lesion. 2 Ct were done 1 before PET scan and 1 before ultrasound.
My mom was suffering from severe vomiting issues and had blockage in duodenal. She went through a bypass surgery on 7th August and now she is better but eats very little. There is no other symptoms.
My doctor is asking to do PET scan again. I dont understand why this test we need to do again.
Cant pet scan detect all cancers? If it is cancer why is it not shown in any of the reports?
1 upper endoscopy biopsy was done before the surgery which also came normal.
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It requires detailed evaluation of the patient.
U need to visit Medical Oncologist
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Despite pet ct is not detecting in all cancers, it might help in detecting in primary site of tumor in more than 90% (carcinoma of unknown primary) . Especially in this patient, primary couldn't find out(possible primary from hepatobilary sytem, may be gall bladder). Endoscopic biopsy show positivity only in tumor inside of stomach. If the tumor is outside stomach, cannot picked up endoscopy, in that situation pet ct may help.
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