| International Journal of Nuclear Medicine Research (Volume 5 Issue 1) | |
| F-18 FDG PET/CT in Staging of Renal Cell Carcinoma Arising from a Native Kidney with Liver and Bone Metastasis in a Renal Transplant Recipient |  |
| Pages 10-12
Koramadai Karuppusamy Kamaleshwaran, Stuart More, Raghi Paramben Jose and Ajit Sugunan Shinto DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15379/2408-9788.2018.05.01.03 Published: 23 April 2018 |
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| Abstract | |
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Renal cell Carcinoma (RCC) of the native kidney accounts for less than 5% of all malignancies found in transplant recipients. Owing to the rarity of this condition, there are only a number of documented case reports of patients who have undergone renal transplantation with RCC of the native kidney. Fluorine -18 Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET)/ computer tomography (CT) (F-18 FDG PET/CT) is used in the staging of high risk RCC or when conventional imaging is equivocal. The prognosis of metastatic RCC is poor .We report the first case of a 55 year old post renal transplant recipient diagnosed with RCC of the native kidney with liver and bone metastases imaged using F- 18 FDG PET/CT. |
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| Keywords | |
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RCC, Renal transplant, Native kidney, F-18 FDG PET/CT. |
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