68Ga Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Uptake in Renal Cell Cancer Lymph Node Metastases

Clin Nucl Med. 2016 May;41(5):e261-2. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001128.

Abstract

Ga prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-HBED-CC PET/CT in a patient with a history of both prostate cancer (PC) and renal cell cancer (RCC) shows high PSMA expression in the residual right seminal vesicle suggestive of local recurrence of PC as well as suspected PSMA-positive mediastinal, retroperitoneal, and iliac lymph nodes. Regarding the latter, biopsy revealed lymph node metastases from RCC excluding PC metastases. This case exemplarily demonstrates that high PSMA expression in RCC metastases can potentially mimic PC metastases. Thus, for accurate interpretation of imaging results in PC patients with additional primary tumors, knowledge of PSMA expression of non-PC tissue is necessary.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acetates
  • Aged
  • Antigens, Surface / metabolism*
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / diagnostic imaging*
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / pathology
  • Ethylenediamines
  • Gallium Radioisotopes
  • Glutamate Carboxypeptidase II / metabolism*
  • Humans
  • Lymphatic Metastasis
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / diagnostic imaging*
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Radiopharmaceuticals

Substances

  • Acetates
  • Antigens, Surface
  • Ethylenediamines
  • Gallium Radioisotopes
  • N,N'-di(2-hydroxybenzyl)ethylenediamine-N,N'-diacetic acid
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • FOLH1 protein, human
  • Glutamate Carboxypeptidase II