Pulmonary tumor embolus with high (18)FDG uptake mimicking lung metastasis from renal-cell cancer

Rev Esp Med Nucl Imagen Mol. 2015 Sep-Oct;34(5):325-6. doi: 10.1016/j.remn.2014.12.004. Epub 2015 Jan 23.

Authors

Giovanni Leuzzi¹, Enrico Melis², Daniele Forcella², Francesco Facciolo²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgical Oncology, Thoracic Surgery Unit, Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, IFO, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: gio.leuzzi@yahoo.it.
² Department of Surgical Oncology, Thoracic Surgery Unit, Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, IFO, Rome, Italy.

PMID: 25619722
DOI: 10.1016/j.remn.2014.12.004

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Carcinoma, Renal Cell / diagnostic imaging
Carcinoma, Renal Cell / secondary*
Carcinoma, Renal Cell / surgery
Diagnosis, Differential
Fluorine Radioisotopes
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Humans
Kidney Neoplasms / blood
Kidney Neoplasms / pathology*
Kidney Neoplasms / surgery
Lung Neoplasms / diagnosis
Lung Neoplasms / secondary*
Male
Middle Aged
Neoplastic Cells, Circulating*
Nephrectomy
Pneumonectomy
Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*
Pulmonary Embolism / diagnostic imaging*
Pulmonary Embolism / etiology
Pulmonary Embolism / surgery
Radiopharmaceuticals
Remission Induction
Solitary Pulmonary Nodule / diagnostic imaging*
Solitary Pulmonary Nodule / etiology

Substances

Fluorine Radioisotopes
Radiopharmaceuticals
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18