title: Usefulness of F-18 FDG-PET in a long-term hemodialysis patient with renal cell carcinoma and pheochromocytoma.
abstract: A patient who had been on long-term hemodialysis (HD) was diagnosed as having renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and pheochromocytoma. Abdominal computed tomography scanning demonstrated a right renal mass and a right adrenal mass, whereas positron emission tomography (PET) using F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) revealed increased accumulation in both the renal and adrenal masses. FDG-PET is useful for detecting RCC in HD patients because FDG is not excreted in the urine, but it is difficult to distinguish pheochromocytoma from an adrenal metastasis by this imaging method.
authors.affiliation: PET Center, Saiseikai Nakatsu Hospital, 2-10-39 Shibata Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0012, Japan. ozawa@nakatsu.saiseikai.or.jp
authors.forename: Nozomi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ozawa
authors.forename: Terue
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okamura
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koyama
authors.forename: Yoshimasa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hamazawa
authors.forename: Hideto
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Senzaki
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tanabe
authors.forename: Shinichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ikemoto
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Inoue
mesh_terms: D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000379:methods*; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18