Nasal-Tip Metastasis on 18F-FDG PET/CT Scan in a Patient With Squamous Lung Carcinoma

Clin Nucl Med. 2017 Jun;42(6):478-479. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001597.

Abstract

A 64-year-old man found a painless soft tissue mass on his nasal tip 3 months ago. The biopsy pathology indicated a metastatic squamous carcinoma. An F-FDG PET/CT scan was performed to detect the primary malignancy, and it demonstrated multiple F-FDG-avid lesions involving the nasal tip, bilateral lungs, right hilum and mediastinum, and rectum. The nasal-tip mass with high radioactivity was diagnosed as the metastasis from squamous lung carcinoma, which was confirmed by the biopsy of a lung lesion.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy
  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / pathology*
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Nose Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Nose Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*

Substances

  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18