Background: Skin metastases from either prostate adenocarcinoma or multiple myeloma rarely occur.
We report the case of a 73-year-old man with multiple myeloma who presented with multiple subcutaneous nodules 3 years after his initial diagnosis.
Methods: Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging was suggestive of a concomitant second primary from the prostate.
Results: This case highlights not only a rare initial manifestation of prostate cancer, but also the role of 18F-FDG-PET/CT in detecting a clinically unsuspected second malignancy.
Conclusion: It potentially corroborates the possible association of both diseases, as has been reported before.
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AbAziz A, Mahaletchumy T, Chung JK. Are you the author?
Department of Molecular Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Jalan Yaacob Latif, Cheras, 56000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Department of Molecular Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Reference: Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2013 Dec;47(4):285-8.
doi: 10.1007/s13139-013-0233-5
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 24900127
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