PURPOSE: Retrospectively analysed our experience in Renal Cell carcinoma (RCC) patients studied with 18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography (FDG PET) to rule out the incidence and clinical impact of heart metastases. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In two years, 37 patients with RCC were studied with FDG PET. 10 were studied for initial staging and 27 patients were evaluated for suspected recurrence or re-staging. RESULTS: In two patients (5%), PET scan showed pathological focal uptake in myocardium. On the bases of this finding, MRI was performed visualizing a myocardial mass in both lesions and confirmed by histology in one of them. The hypothesis of prolepses of the tumour by thrombus in RCC patients justified the surgery. CONCLUSION: Whole-body FDG PET in RCC patients could help to diagnose cardiac metastasis, and allows the possibility of therapeutic surgery, due to the thrombus significance of heart involvement.
PURPOSE: Retrospectively analysed our experience in Renal Cell carcinoma (RCC) patients studied with 18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography (FDG PET) to rule out the incidence and clinical impact of heart metastases. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In two years, 37 patients with RCC were studied with FDG PET. 10 were studied for initial staging and 27 patients were evaluated for suspected recurrence or re-staging. RESULTS: In two patients (5%), PET scan showed pathological focal uptake in myocardium. On the bases of this finding, MRI was performed visualizing a myocardial mass in both lesions and confirmed by histology in one of them. The hypothesis of prolepses of the tumour by thrombus in RCCpatients justified the surgery. CONCLUSION: Whole-body FDG PET in RCCpatients could help to diagnose cardiac metastasis, and allows the possibility of therapeutic surgery, due to the thrombus significance of heart involvement.
Authors: Navneet S Majhail; Jean-Luc Urbain; Justin M Albani; Mangesh H Kanvinde; Thomas W Rice; Andrew C Novick; Tarek M Mekhail; Thomas E Olencki; Paul Elson; Ronald M Bukowski Journal: J Clin Oncol Date: 2003-11-01 Impact factor: 44.544
Authors: Paola Anna Erba; Patrizio Lancellotti; Isidre Vilacosta; Oliver Gaemperli; Francois Rouzet; Marcus Hacker; Alberto Signore; Riemer H J A Slart; Gilbert Habib Journal: Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Date: 2018-05-24 Impact factor: 9.236