Cardiac and acoustic metastases in relapsing melanoma

Clin Nucl Med. 2013 Feb;38(2):e85-8. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31826c0cc0.

Abstract

Herein we report the case of a 45-year-old woman with known history of malignant melanoma, complaining recent onset of bilateral hearing problems initially addressed to acoustic neuroma. Dedicated (18)F-FDG PET/CT and MR imaging documented the presence of 3 areas of pathologic uptake in the V-VII-VIII cranial nerves, other 2 in the neck and in the medullary sheath, and another unexpected lesion in the interventricular septum. All lesions showed intense (18)F-FDG uptake, high precontrast T1-weighted signal, contrast enhancement in T1-weighted sequences with gadolinium, and hypervascularization/high signal in T2-weighted images: these features were considered in keeping with diffused malignant melanoma metastatization.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Melanoma / pathology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Neuroma, Acoustic / diagnosis*
  • Neuroma, Acoustic / diagnostic imaging
  • Neuroma, Acoustic / secondary*
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Recurrence

Substances

  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18