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Kwon, Jeong, Min, Oh, Kim, and Bom: Metastases to Skeletal Muscles from Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Demonstrated by 18 F-FDG PET/CT
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J Lung Cancer 2007;6(2):91-91.

Published online: 10 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6058/jlc.2007.6.2.91

Metastases to Skeletal Muscles from Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Demonstrated by 18 F-FDG PET/CT

Seong-Young Kwon, M.D.1, Shin Young Jeong, M.D.1, Jung-Joon Min, M.D., Ph.D.1, In-Jae Oh, M.D.2, Young-Chul Kim, M.D., Ph.D.2, Hee-Seung Bom, M.D., Ph.D.1

1Departments of Nuclear Medicine

2Pulmonology, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, J eonnam, Korea

Address for correspondence Hee-Seung Bom, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, 160, Ilsim-ri, Hwasun, J eonnam 519-809, Korea Tel: 82-61-379-7002 Fax: 82-61-379-7010 E-mail: hsbom@ jnu.ac.kr

Received 1 November 2007       Accepted 1 November 2007

Copyright © 2007 Korean Association for the Study of Lung Cancer

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Hematogenous metastases to skeletal muscles are extremely rare metastases that may present as painful masses in the proximal skeletal muscles. The reasons for the rarity of metastatic tumors in skeletal muscle are not clear. However, the 18 F-FDG PET/CT make it suitable whole body coverage and high sensitivity of 18 F-FDG PET/CT for evaluating distant metastasis. We report here the findings of in a 66-year-old female with non-small cell lung cancer (adenocarcinoma) and multiple metastases to skeletal muscles.

Keywords: Lung cancer, Skeletal muscle metastases, 18 F-FDG, PET/CT

Fig. 1.
18F-FDG PET/CT image of a 66-year-old female patient with adenocarcinoma of lung showing a hypermetabolic mass in the left lower lobe (C, arrowhead) with multiple hypermetabolic lesions in the left upper arm and thigh (A, B, D, arrow), which revealed as metastatic adenocarcinoma by biopsy.
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