Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer With Extensive Skeletal Muscle Metastases on 18F-FDG PET/CT

Clin Nucl Med. 2018 Apr;43(4):e113-e114. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001968.

Abstract

A 61-year-old woman with newly diagnosed anaplastic thyroid cancer and known metastases to the brain, lungs, and adrenal glands complained of groin muscle pain. F-FDG PET/CT was performed to assess for extent of disease and showed extensive hypermetabolic lesions throughout the skeletal musculature concerning for metastatic disease. As this would be a very rare presentation for anaplastic thyroid carcinoma, a biopsy of the left gluteal muscle was conducted. Pathology demonstrated anaplastic thyroid carcinoma, metastatic to skeletal muscle.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Muscle Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Muscle Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Muscle, Skeletal / diagnostic imaging*
  • Muscle, Skeletal / pathology
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*
  • Thyroid Carcinoma, Anaplastic / pathology*
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / pathology*

Substances

  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18