Cutting-edge imaging of cardiac metastases from neuroendocrine tumors: Lesson from a case series

Soraya El Ghannudi, University Hospitals of Strasbourg
Eric Ouvrard, University Hospitals of Strasbourg
Nidaa Mikail, Beaujon Hospital
Benjamin Leroy Freschini, University Hospitals of Strasbourg
Thomas H Schindler, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Alessio Imperiale, University Hospitals of Strasbourg

Abstract

With the increasing availability of high-performance medical imaging for the management of patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), a progressive growth of asymptomatic and incidentally detected cardiac metastases (CMs) has been observed in the recent years. In clinical practice, CMs of NENs are often incidentally detected by whole-body