Solitary Penile Metastasis of Prostate Cancer on 18F-Fluciclovine PET/CT Imaging in a Patient With PSA of 1 ng/mL

Clin Nucl Med. 2020 May;45(5):389-391. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002987.

Abstract

An 85-year-old asymptomatic man with suspected biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer underwent an F-fluciclovine PET/CT scan, which revealed a solitary suspicious tracer uptake in the dorsal right corporal body of the proximal pendulous penis. The patient underwent ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration of the penile lesion, which revealed metastatic prostate cancer. The patient had definitive external beam radiation therapy 3 years before the examination. At the time of scan, the prostatic-specific antigen (PSA) was only 1.0 ng/mL, although the PSA doubling time was 2.6 months. It is unusual to detect a solitary penile metastasis in a patient with a low level of PSA.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Carboxylic Acids*
  • Cyclobutanes*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Penile Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Penile Neoplasms / metabolism
  • Penile Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen / metabolism*
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology*

Substances

  • Carboxylic Acids
  • Cyclobutanes
  • fluciclovine F-18
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen