title: Cardiac and acoustic metastases in relapsing melanoma.
abstract: Herein we report the case of a 45-year-old woman with known history of malignant melanoma, complaining recent onset of bilateral hearing problems initially addressed to acoustic neuroma. Dedicated (18)F-FDG PET/CT and MR imaging documented the presence of 3 areas of pathologic uptake in the V-VII-VIII cranial nerves, other 2 in the neck and in the medullary sheath, and another unexpected lesion in the interventricular septum. All lesions showed intense (18)F-FDG uptake, high precontrast T1-weighted signal, contrast enhancement in T1-weighted sequences with gadolinium, and hypervascularization/high signal in T2-weighted images: these features were considered in keeping with diffused malignant melanoma metastatization.
authors: Nuclear Medicine Department, IRCCS Humanitas, Rozzano, Milano, Italy. egesta.lopci@cancercenter.humanitas.it
authors: Egesta
authors: E
authors: Lopci
authors: Lorenzo
authors: L
authors: Monti
authors: Luca
authors: L
authors: Balzarini
authors: Arturo
authors: A
authors: Chiti
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009464:Neuroma, Acoustic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012008:Recurrence
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18