Dual-Tracer PET/CT Differentiates 2 Types of Primary Cancers and Metastases in a Patient With Crossed Fused Renal Ectopia

Clin Nucl Med. 2019 Feb;44(2):157-158. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002390.

Abstract

A patient was found incidentally on dual-tracer (C-acetate [ACT] and F-FDG [FDG]) PET/CT for having crossed fused renal ectopia and 2 types of malignant tumors, colonic carcinoma and renal cell carcinoma (RCC), each having its own characteristic tracer avidity. Multiple liver metastases were also mutually exclusive, with a purely ACT-avid group of metastatic lesions from RCC and another FDG-avid group from colonic carcinoma. Bone and lung metastases, however, could not be readily distinguishable in terms of primary origins. Crossed fused renal ectopia is a rare anomaly, even rarer to have RCC coexisting with a second primary malignancy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acetates*
  • Carbon Radioisotopes
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / diagnostic imaging*
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / pathology
  • Colonic Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Colonic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
  • Humans
  • Kidney / abnormalities*
  • Kidney Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Kidney Neoplasms / pathology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Metastasis
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*
  • Radioactive Tracers

Substances

  • Acetates
  • Carbon Radioisotopes
  • Carbon-11
  • Radioactive Tracers
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18