Published Cases of Cardiac Tumors and 18F-FDG PET
| Histology | |||||
| Study | Primary benign tumors | Primary malignant tumors | Secondary malignant tumors | 18F-FDG | SUVmax |
| Agostini et al. (12) | Myxoma | + | NA | ||
| Freudenberg et al. (13) | Angiosarcoma | + | 7.5 | ||
| Hoffmeier et al. (15) | Angiosarcoma | + | 5.4 | ||
| Hori et al. (16) | Angiosarcoma | + | 9.9 | ||
| Zhang et al. (22) | Liposarcoma | + | 5.6 | ||
| Nakamura-Horigome et al. (17) | Angiosarcoma | + | NA | ||
| Higashiyama et al. (14) | Angiosarcoma | + | 5.6 | ||
| Schnabel et al. (20) | Metastasis | − | NA | ||
| Plutchok et al. (19) | Metastasis | + | NA | ||
| Shimotsu et al. (21) | Metastasis | + | 7.9 | ||
| Biancheri et al. (23) | Metastasis | + | NA | ||
| Nonaka et al. (24) | Metastasis | + | NA | ||
| Orcurto et al. (18) | Metastasis | + | NA | ||
| Wenning et al. (25) | Metastasis | + | 15.5 | ||
Primary and secondary malignant cardiac tumors show increased 18F-FDG uptake. In only 1 case of adenocarcinoma was 18F-FDG uptake absent.
+ = positive; NA = not available; − = negative.