Incidental Finding on 11C-Choline-PET/CT of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence in a Prostate Cancer Patient With Negative Abdominal CT Scan

Clin Nucl Med. 2020 Sep;45(9):703-704. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000003203.

Abstract

A 76-year-old man, who experienced prostate cancer biochemical relapse after 12 years from radical prostatectomy, underwent abdominal CT scan for restaging purposes, negative for metastases, and then C-choline PET/CT. The only finding was an area of focal uptake of radiotracer between the intestinal loops and the abdominal wall; after resection, the lesion demonstrated to be a metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), for which the patient had undergone liver resection 2 years earlier. This case proves that abnormal foci of C-choline uptake in the peritoneum in HCC patients have to be kept in mind as possible sites of HCC-metastases.

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Carbon Radioisotopes*
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / diagnostic imaging*
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / secondary
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / surgery
  • Choline*
  • Humans
  • Incidental Findings*
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary
  • Liver Neoplasms / surgery
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*
  • Prostatectomy
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / surgery

Substances

  • Carbon Radioisotopes
  • Carbon-11
  • Choline