1. Thyroid Metastasis From Primary Renal Cell Cancer on FDG PET/CT
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Linh Ho and Aarti Kaushik
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Metastasis ,Lesion ,Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 ,medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Thyroid Neoplasms ,Carcinoma, Renal Cell ,business.industry ,Sunitinib ,Thyroid ,Cancer ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Kidney Neoplasms ,Nephrectomy ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Positron-Emission Tomography ,Fdg pet ct ,Cell cancer ,Radiology ,medicine.symptom ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
We report the PET/CT appearance of metastasis from primary renal cancer to the thyroid in a 52-year-old man with a history of right renal cell carcinoma, status postright nephrectomy, recently presented biopsied-proven metastatic lesion in his left thyroid lobe. Restaging PET/CT study demonstrates a 1.4 × 0.9 cm hypodense, moderately active lesion in the left thyroid lobe with a maximum SUV of 2.8. No other abnormal hypermetabolic lesion is seen in the right renal surgical bed or the remaining body. The patient has subsequently treated with Sutent (Sunitinib).
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- 2011
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