An Unusual Case of Simultaneous Cricoid and Thyroid Cartilage Metastases from Prostatic Adenocarcinoma on 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT

Avinash Tupalli; Nishikant Avinash Damle; ArunRaj Sreedharan Thankarajan; Bharadwaj Srinivas Mangu; Arunav Kumar; Dikhra Khan; Sambit Sagar; Chandrasekhar Bal

doi:10.1007/s13139-019-00625-7

An Unusual Case of Simultaneous Cricoid and Thyroid Cartilage Metastases from Prostatic Adenocarcinoma on ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA PET/CT

Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2020 Feb;54(1):61-62. doi: 10.1007/s13139-019-00625-7. Epub 2019 Dec 18.

Authors

Avinash Tupalli¹, Nishikant Avinash Damle¹, ArunRaj Sreedharan Thankarajan¹, Bharadwaj Srinivas Mangu¹, Arunav Kumar¹, Dikhra Khan¹, Sambit Sagar¹, Chandrasekhar Bal¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, 110029 India.

Abstract

Although prostate cancer can metastasize to any part of the body, laryngeal cartilage metastasis is extremely rare and few cases have been published so far. Here we present the case of a 65-year-old male patient, recently diagnosed with prostate adenocarcinoma, referred for staging with ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA PET/CT. He was found to have extensive skeletal metastasis along with cartilage metastasis involving both thyroid and cricoid cartilages.

Keywords: 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT; Adenocarcinoma prostate; Cricoid cartilage; Metastasis; Thyroid cartilage.