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Usefulness of F-18 FDG-PET in a long-term hemodialysis patient with renal cell carcinoma and pheochromocytoma |
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| Authors: | Nozomi Ozawa Terue Okamura Koichi Koyama Yoshimasa Hamazawa Hideto Senzaki Shigeru Tanabe Shinichi Ikemoto Yuichi Inoue |
| Affiliation: | (1) PET Center, Saiseikai Nakatsu Hospital, 2-10-39 Shibata Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0012, Japan;(2) Department of Radiology, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan;(3) Department of Pathology, Saiseikai Nakatsu Hospital, Osaka, Japan;(4) Department of Urology, Shirasagi Hospital, Osaka, Japan;(5) Department of Urology, Yao Municipal Hospital, Osaka, Japan |
| Abstract: | A patient who had been on long-term hemodialysis (HD) was diagnosed as having renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and pheochromocytoma. Abdominal computed tomography scanning demonstrated a right renal mass and a right adrenal mass, whereas positron emission tomography (PET) using F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) revealed increased accumulation in both the renal and adrenal masses. FDG-PET is useful for detecting RCC in HD patients because FDG is not excreted in the urine, but it is difficult to distinguish pheochromocytoma from an adrenal metastasis by this imaging method. |
| Keywords: | FDG-PET Renal cell carcinoma Pheochromocytoma |
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