Cardiac metastases from renal cell carcinoma are rare but should be recognized when present.
We report PET/CT findings in a patient with headache and diplopia and cerebral metastasis from an unknown primary of clear cell adenocarcinoma origin. PET/CT revealed uptake with a left renal cell carcinoma, and revealed multiple metastatic lesions, including an FDG-avid metastasis within the left ventricular myocardium.
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Pinnamaneni N, Muthukrishnan A. Are you the author?
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Reference: Clin Nucl Med. 2012 Jul;37(7):e181-3.
doi: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31824c5def
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 22691531
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