The scope and potentials of functional radionuclide imaging towards advancing personalized medicine in oncology: emphasis on PET-CTSandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Parel, Mumbai, India
Discov Med 13:65-73. 2012
..In this paper, an endeavor has been made to explore the potential of this approach and underscore the areas that would require further critical evaluation to make this a reality...
- (18)F-FDG-PET assessment of early treatment response of articular and extra-articular foci in newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis
Manjit Sarma
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, Mumbai 400012, India
Hell J Nucl Med 15:70-1. 2012
..The differential response of the articular and extra-articular foci as well as axillary nodes to disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs is noteworthy and requires further investigation...
- A nonpalpable toxic thyroid lobe besides a malignant lobe
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Tata Memorial Centre Annexe, Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, Bombay 400 012, India
Hell J Nucl Med 12:173-4. 2009
..Though malignant foci have been described in a toxic gland, the two entire lobes with the above two different pathologies, according to our knowledge, have not been reported previously...
- Recurrence of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans in post-surgical scar detected by (18)F-FDG-PET imaging
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Memorial Centre Annexe, Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, Bombay 400 012, India
Hell J Nucl Med 12:68. 2009
..It also depicts the role of (18)F-FDG-PET in DFSP, where it has the potential to define the true extent of the tumor. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no previous report investigating the utility of (18)F-FDG-PET in DFSP...
- Chondroid hamartoma presenting as solitary pulmonary nodule: Results of dual time point (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose-PET and comparison with (18)F-fluorothymidine PET and histopathology
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, 400 012 Mumbai
Hell J Nucl Med 14:173-4. 2011
..In conclusion, we showed mild uptake of (18)F-FDG in the lesion and even lower in the delayed image, which indicated the benign nature of the lesion. The (18)F-FLT-PET did not show any tracer uptake in this lesion...
- Increased muscle (18)F-FDG uptake in an agitated child
Johny K Joseph
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Parel, Bombay 400 012, India
Hell J Nucl Med 13:282. 2010
..In conclusion, this case of increased (18)F-FDG uptake due to excessive muscle hypermetabolism that resolved after a normal state of the patient may be useful to the interpreting physicians...
- FDG-PET and PET/CT in the clinical management of gastrointestinal stromal tumor
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay, India
Nucl Med Commun 29:1026-39. 2008
..On the basis of the experience gained in recent times, the future potential of this powerful modality in this setting is hypothesized...
- Diffuse intense FDG uptake in the bone marrow in gastrointestinal stromal tumor with coexistent polycythemia rubra vera
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre BARC, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
Clin Nucl Med 33:782-3. 2008
- PET imaging in the management of tumors of testis and ovary: current thinking and future directions
S Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre BARC, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Parel, Bombay, India
Minerva Endocrinol 33:229-56. 2008
..The role of fluoro-D-deoxyglucose (FDG)-PET/CT for the detection of recurrent ovarian cancer appears very promising and has the potential to replace the current surveillance techniques in detecting recurrent disease...
- Unusual involvement of scalp and bilateral kidneys in an aggressive mediastinal diffuse large B cell lymphoma: documentation by FDG-PET imaging
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Clin Nucl Med 34:638-41. 2009
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- Early documentation of therapeutic response at 6 weeks following corticosteroid therapy in extensive sarcoidosis: promise of FDG-PET
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre BARC, Tata Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India
Clin Nucl Med 34:689-90. 2009
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- Metastasis of humeral osteosarcoma to the contralateral breast detected by 99mTc-MDP skeletal scintigraphy
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre BARC, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Parel, Bombay, India
Jpn J Radiol 27:455-7. 2009
..The present case demonstrates a rare site of metastasis from OGS of the left humerus to the contralateral breast and hence is reported here as an unusual case vignette...
- An original case of isolated unilateral adrenal metastasis from penile carcinoma: documentation by (18)F-FDG-PET imaging and histopathology
Prathamesh Joshi
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, Bombay 400 012
Hell J Nucl Med 13:63-4. 2010
..PET/CT may be useful for planning surgery with regard to distant metastases. We present this case as the first case of adrenal metastasis from penile carcinoma...
- Personalized versus evidence-based medicine with PET-based imaging
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Center, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Parel, Mumbai 400012, India
Nat Rev Clin Oncol 7:665-8. 2010
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- (18)F-FDG uptake in small bowel intussusception in a patient of Langerhans cell histiocytosis and its resolution following successful conservative medical management
Amit Abhyankar
Radiation Medicine Centre B A R C, T M C Annexe, Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, Mumbai 400012, India
Hell J Nucl Med 13:289-90. 2010
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- 'Reverse discordance' between 68Ga-DOTA-NOC PET/CT and 177Lu-DOTA-TATE posttherapy scan: the plausible explanations and its implications for high-dose therapy with radiolabeled somatostatin receptor analogs
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, BARC, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, Bombay 400 012, Maharashtra, India
Nucl Med Commun 32:654-8. 2011
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- Detection by (18)F-FDG PET of unsuspected extensive bone marrow metastases in a case of basosquamous carcinoma of the cheek
Prathamesh Joshi
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Department of Pathology, Tata Memorial Hospital Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, 400 012 Mumbai
Hell J Nucl Med 14:307-8. 2011
..In conclusion, this is the first reported case of the use of (18)F-FDG PET study for diagnosing metastatic bone marrow disease in a patient with basosquamous carcinoma...
- Bilateral adrenal metastases and metastatic subcutaneous deposit in the chest wall from osteosarcoma of the mandible: utility of 18F-FDG-PET
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay, India
Hell J Nucl Med 12:51-4. 2009
..No age predilection was observed with male to female ratio of 3:1 in the small number of reported cases...
- A hypermetabolic abdominal focus in a case of osteogenic sarcoma on 18FDG-PET: in vivo insight into the gravid myometrial metabolism pattern
S Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Memorial Centre Annexe, Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, Bombay 400 012, India
Br J Radiol 80:851-2. 2007
- Unilateral proptosis with thyrotoxicosis resulting from solitary retroorbital soft tissue metastasis from follicular carcinoma thyroid
S Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Parel, Bombay, India
Clin Nucl Med 26:136-8. 2001
..Total thyroidectomy was performed and the patient was treated with I-131 after operation. The proptosis resolved with I-131 treatment...
- Papillary thyroid carcinoma with exuberant nodular fasciitis-like stroma: treatment outcome and prognosis
S Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay, India
J Laryngol Otol 120:338-42. 2006
..Metastasis to surrounding structures (e.g. parathyroid and skeletal muscle) was observed in 12.5 per cent. There have been no reports of pulmonary or skeletal metastasis at presentation...
- Unilateral testicular relapse of abdominal non-Hodgkin lymphoma detected by FDG-PET
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, Bombay, Maharashtra 400012, India
Pediatr Radiol 36:274-5. 2006
- Relapse of cervical cancer presenting as symptoms of Collet-Sicard syndrome with metastatic subcutaneous and adrenal deposits
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Memorial Centre Annexe, Parel, Mumbai, India
Lancet Oncol 7:610. 2006
- Potential clinical role of FDG-PET in detecting sarcomatous transformation in von Recklinghausen's disease: a case study and review of the literature
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Memorial Centre Annexe, Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, Bombay, 400 012, India
J Neurooncol 80:91-5. 2006
..Surgical biopsy to rule out suspicious malignant transformation is often a problem in deep seated lesions...
- (18)FDG PET in primary oat cell carcinoma of the esophagus
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Tata Memorial Centre Annexe, Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, Mumbai 400012, India
Indian J Cancer 42:60-2. 2005
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- Avid 18F-FDG uptake in rectal hemorrhoid in a patient with metastatic medullary carcinoma of thyroid
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Center, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai 400 012, India
Indian J Gastroenterol 25:257. 2006
- Intense F-18 FDG uptake in the stomach wall in follicular gastritis in Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay, India
Clin Nucl Med 32:150-1. 2007
- 18F-FDG uptake in bilateral adrenal hyperplasia causing Cushing's syndrome
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Memorial Centre Annexe, Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, Bombay, 400 012, India
Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 32:384. 2005
- Unsuspected metastatic male breast nodule from synovial sarcoma detected by FDG PET
Narendra Nair
Radiation Medicine Centre, Tata Memorial Centre Annexe, Bombay
Clin Nucl Med 30:289-90. 2005
..5-cm mobile nodule in the right breast. Histopathology confirmed it to be metastasis from the synovial sarcoma. Extramammary malignancies metastasizing to the breast constitute approximately 2% of all breast tumors...
- Uptake characteristics of FDG in multiple juvenile cellular fibroadenomata of the breast: FDG-PET and histopathologic correlation
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay, India
Clin Nucl Med 32:203-4. 2007
- Unusually elevated liver radioactivity on F-18 FDG PET in Hodgkin's disease: hepatic 'superscan'
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bombay, India
Clin Nucl Med 29:626-8. 2004
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- Detection of unsuspected metachronous second primary malignancy giving rise to supposed "non-iodine avid metastasis" in differentiated thyroid carcinoma
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay, India
Clin Nucl Med 32:655-8. 2007
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- Uptake characteristics of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) in deep fibromatosis and abdominal desmoids: potential clinical role of FDG-PET in the management
S Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre BARC, Tata Memorial Hospital, Parel, Bombay 400 012, India
Br J Radiol 80:750-6. 2007
..The findings in this report can be extrapolated and have implications for studying the utility of FDG-PET in defining aggressiveness, guiding biopsy and defining excision site in a large tumour and in monitoring therapy in fibromatosis...
- Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus masquerading as solitary thyroid nodule
S Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital, Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, Mumbai 400 012, India
Indian J Cancer 42:205-7. 2005
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- "Cold" vertebrae on F-18 FDG PET: Causes and characteristics
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay, India
Clin Nucl Med 31:445-50. 2006
..Photon deficiency in the vertebrae on FDG PET can arise as a result of varying etiologies, and a proper interpretation of this incidental observation is essential for an accurate diagnosis...
- 18 F-FDG avid lesion due to coexistent fibrous dysplasia in a child of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma: source of false positive FDG-PET
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre BARC, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, Mumbai 400 012, India
J Cancer Res Ther 6:92-4. 2010
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- Potential role of FDG PET imaging in predicting metastatic potential and assessment of therapeutic response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in Ewing sarcoma family of tumors
Khushboo Gupta
Radiation Medicine Centre, BARC, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Mumbai, India
Clin Nucl Med 36:973-7. 2011
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- Clinical utility of FDG-PET and PET/CT in non-malignant thoracic disorders
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre BARC, Tata Memorial Hospital Annex, Parel, Bombay, India
Mol Imaging Biol 13:1051-60. 2011
..This article reviews the current state of this very important application of FDG-PET imaging...
- Selected cases demonstrating the value of furosemide-primed 18F-FDG PET in identifying adrenal involvement
Narendra Nair
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay, India
J Nucl Med Technol 33:166-71. 2005
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- Furosemide for the diagnosis of complete or partial ureteropelvic junction obstruction
Niovi Karavida
Nuclear Medicine Specialist, PB 60876, 57001 Thermi, Greece
Hell J Nucl Med 13:11-4. 2010
..The FS induced diuresis procedure is compared to other related diagnostic techniques...
- Potential of dual time point FDG-PET imaging in differentiating malignant from benign pleural disease
Ayse Mavi
Division of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, 110 Donner Bldg, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Mol Imaging Biol 11:369-78. 2009
..The aim of this study was to assess the utility of dual time point 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG-PET) imaging in differentiating benign from malignant pleural disease...
- Metastatic parotid tumor: a rare presentation for papillary carcinoma of thyroid
Gaurav Malhotra
Radiation Medicine Centre (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, TMH Annexe, Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, Mumbai
Clin Nucl Med 32:488-90. 2007
- F-18 FDG PET findings in a port site recurrence after laparoscopic radical nephrectomy in a patient with renal cell carcinoma
Gaurav Malhotra
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, TMC Annexe, Jerbaiwadia Road, Parel, Mumbai, India
Clin Nucl Med 33:146-7. 2008
- Bronchoalveolar carcinoma of lung masquerading as iodine avid metastasis in a patient with minimally invasive follicular carcinoma of thyroid
Gaurav Malhotra
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, TMC Annexe, Tata Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai
Clin Nucl Med 33:26-9. 2008
..I-131 scan showed avid tracer uptake in the mass. This case suggests the possibility of this therapeutic option in nonthyroidal tumors that may concentrate radioiodine...
- Current evidence base of FDG-PET/CT imaging in the clinical management of malignant pleural mesothelioma: emerging significance of image segmentation and global disease assessment
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Center Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Parel, Bombay, India
Mol Imaging Biol 13:801-11. 2011
..This global disease assessment, we believe, will be the way forward for assessing this malignancy with a non-invasive imaging modality...
- PET and PET-CT imaging of gynecological malignancies: present role and future promise
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Parel, Bombay, India
Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 9:75-96. 2009
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- Molecular imaging (PET) of brain tumors
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre BARC, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Parel, Bombay 400012, India
Neuroimaging Clin N Am 19:625-46. 2009
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- [¹³¹I]Metaiodobenzylguanidine therapy in neural crest tumors: varying outcome in different histopathologies
Swati Hiren Rachh
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Parel, Bombay, India
Nucl Med Commun 32:1201-10. 2011
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- Fundamentals of PET and PET/CT imaging
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Bombay, India
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1228:1-18. 2011
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- Bilateral renal metastases from papillary thyroid carcinoma on post (131)I treatment scan: Flip-flop sign, radioiodine SPET, (18)F-FDG PET, CECT and histopathological correlation
Chaitanya Borde
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Jerbai Wadia Road, Parel, Bombay 400
Hell J Nucl Med 14:72-3. 2011
..In conclusion, our findings help in delineating and understanding tumor biology and provide critical information in thyroid cancer management...
- Functional imaging of inflammatory diseases using nuclear medicine techniques
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Center BARC, Tata Memorial Hospital Annex, Mumbai, India
Semin Nucl Med 39:124-45. 2009
..Therefore, functional imaging, led by FDG-PET imaging, is likely to play an increasingly critical role in assessing inflammatory disorders of known and unknown etiologies, and will improve their management immensely in the future...
- A pregnant woman with metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma and paraplegia: Multiple considerations involved in the management
Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Parel, Bombay 400012
Hell J Nucl Med 14:320-1. 2011
..In conclusion, a teamwork of surgeons, obstetricians, nuclear medicine physicians as well as the strong support by the relatives, was necessary to favorably treat this patient with metastatic PTC, paraplegia and pregnancy...
- Quantitative analysis of SPECT imaging parameters in patients with resting perfusion defects on myocardial perfusion scintigraphy
Ankur Pruthi
Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre BARC, Tata memorial hospital Annexe Bldg, Mumbai, India
Indian J Nucl Med 25:135-8. 2010
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