Open AccessUnexpected rare metastases of renal cell carcinoma
Author(s) -
Alex Cheen Hoe Khoo,
Yew Teik Cheong
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
world journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1607-3312
pISSN - 1450-1147
DOI - 10.4103/wjnm.wjnm_14_19
Subject(s) - medicine , renal cell carcinoma , maxillary sinus , parathyroid carcinoma , pathology , positron emission tomography , carcinoma , fluorodeoxyglucose , computed tomography , radiology , sinus (botany) , anatomy , botany , biology , genus
Renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) commonly metastasize to the lungs and bones and rarely to the parathyroid, maxillary sinus, and adrenals. It is indeed very rare to have these all these metastases occurring simultaneously in an individual. We share a case of 67-year-old woman provisionally treated for parathyroid carcinoma but subsequently found to actually have metastatic RCC to the left maxillary sinus, parathyroid, lungs, and adrenals on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography–computed tomography.