Left ventricular myocardium metastasis in a patient with primary renal cell carcinoma detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT

Clin Nucl Med. 2012 Jul;37(7):e181-3. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31824c5def.

Abstract

Cardiac metastases from renal cell carcinoma are rare but should be recognized when present. We report PET/CT findings in a patient with headache and diplopia and cerebral metastasis from an unknown primary of clear cell adenocarcinoma origin. PET/CT revealed uptake with a left renal cell carcinoma, and revealed multiple metastatic lesions, including an FDG-avid metastasis within the left ventricular myocardium.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / diagnostic imaging
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / pathology*
  • Female
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Ventricles / pathology
  • Humans
  • Kidney Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Multimodal Imaging*
  • Myocardium / pathology*
  • Positron-Emission Tomography*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*
  • Whole Body Imaging

Substances

  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18