FDG-PET images of acrometastases.
Skeletal metastasis is common in patients with malignancy, but very few patients have acrometastasis, that is, metastasis to the hand or foot. We present 2 cases of acrometastasis from lung cancer where primary and metastatic foci were demonstrated on FDG-PET. The first case involves a 53-year-old man who complained of left foot pain and had osteolytic metastasis in the left calcaneus due to lung adenocarcinoma. True whole-body PET demonstrated lung cancer with calcaneal metastasis. Another case involves a 62-year-old man with large cell carcinoma of the right lung who complained of right wrist pain. Osteolytic metastasis of the hamate was demonstrated on images.
From the Department of Nuclear Medicine, The Cancer Institute Hospital of JFCR, Tokyo, Japan.
Masamichi
M
Koyama
Mitsuru
M
Koizumi
D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D005528:Foot / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D006225:Hand / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D051598:Whole Body Imaging
D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18