FDG-PET images of acrometastases

Clin Nucl Med. 2014 Mar;39(3):298-300. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000000350.

Abstract

Skeletal metastasis is common in patients with malignancy, but very few patients have acrometastasis, that is, metastasis to the hand or foot. We present 2 cases of acrometastasis from lung cancer where primary and metastatic foci were demonstrated on FDG-PET. The first case involves a 53-year-old man who complained of left foot pain and had osteolytic metastasis in the left calcaneus due to lung adenocarcinoma. True whole-body PET demonstrated lung cancer with calcaneal metastasis. Another case involves a 62-year-old man with large cell carcinoma of the right lung who complained of right wrist pain. Osteolytic metastasis of the hamate was demonstrated on images.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
  • Foot / diagnostic imaging*
  • Foot / pathology*
  • Hand / diagnostic imaging*
  • Hand / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Metastasis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Positron-Emission Tomography*
  • Whole Body Imaging

Substances

  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18