title: Serendipitous discovery of peritoneal mesothelioma.
abstract: We present the case of a 64-year-old patient with a history of Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome, polycystic kidney disease treated with renal transplantation in May 2013, and multiple types of skin cancers, including malignant melanoma. He presented for lymphoscintigraphy for sentinel lymph node identification of the melanoma. Subsequent biopsy of the right axillary sentinel lymph node yielded a diagnosis of epithelial type malignant mesothelioma without a known primary tumor. Follow-up positron emission tomography with 2-deoxy-2-(fluorine-18)fluoro-D-glucose integrated with computed tomography (F-18 FDG PET/CT) demonstrated several suspicious hypermetabolic abdominal masses that were later confirmed to be epithelial-type mesothelioma via percutaneous biopsy.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jaster
authors.affiliation: Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wachsmann