Biopsy-Proven Diffuse Mediastinal Prostate Cancer Metastases Negative on 18F-Fluorocholine, Diagnosed on 68Ga-PSMA and 18F-PSMA PET/CT

Clin Nucl Med. 2017 Oct;42(10):801-802. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001766.

Abstract

A 72-year-old man with prostate cancer (stage T3b, Gleason score 7) treated by radical prostatectomy was found to have biochemical failure (prostate-specific antigen 8.5 ng/mL) and a suspicious growing nodularity at the left prostate bed on MRI. F-fluorocholine PET/CT failed to demonstrate any site of uptake suggestive of malignancy. A bone scan did exclude bone metastases. Ga-PSMA PET/CT revealed various positive lymph nodes in the supraclavicular, mediastinal, and hilar regions. This was confirmed on F-DCFPyl PET/CT, with the addition of a suspicious right axillary lymph node. Mediastinal biopsy confirmed metastatic prostate cancer.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Biopsy
  • Choline / analogs & derivatives*
  • Edetic Acid / analogs & derivatives*
  • Fluorine Radioisotopes*
  • Gallium Isotopes
  • Gallium Radioisotopes
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Oligopeptides*
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*
  • Prostatectomy
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / surgery

Substances

  • Fluorine Radioisotopes
  • Gallium Isotopes
  • Gallium Radioisotopes
  • Oligopeptides
  • gallium 68 PSMA-11
  • fluorocholine
  • Edetic Acid
  • Choline