Unexpected rare metastases of renal cell carcinoma

Renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) commonly metastasize to the lungs and bones and rarely to the parathyroid, maxillary sinus, and adrenals. It is indeed very rare to have these all these metastases occurring simultaneously in an individual. We share a case of 67-year-old woman provisionally treated for p...

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Main Authors: Alex Khoo, Yew Cheong
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Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2020-01-01
Series:World Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_14_19
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description Renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) commonly metastasize to the lungs and bones and rarely to the parathyroid, maxillary sinus, and adrenals. It is indeed very rare to have these all these metastases occurring simultaneously in an individual. We share a case of 67-year-old woman provisionally treated for parathyroid carcinoma but subsequently found to actually have metastatic RCC to the left maxillary sinus, parathyroid, lungs, and adrenals on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography–computed tomography.
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spelling doaj-art-2af9dc49e99b4f30a1cd99a740e1eb4c2025-08-20T02:01:42ZengThieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd.World Journal of Nuclear Medicine1450-11471607-33122020-01-011901899110.4103/wjnm.WJNM_14_19Unexpected rare metastases of renal cell carcinomaAlex Khoo0Yew Cheong1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Penang Adventist Hospital, Pulau Pinang, MalaysiaDepartment of Surgery, Penang Adventist Hospital, Pulau Pinang, MalaysiaRenal cell carcinomas (RCCs) commonly metastasize to the lungs and bones and rarely to the parathyroid, maxillary sinus, and adrenals. It is indeed very rare to have these all these metastases occurring simultaneously in an individual. We share a case of 67-year-old woman provisionally treated for parathyroid carcinoma but subsequently found to actually have metastatic RCC to the left maxillary sinus, parathyroid, lungs, and adrenals on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography–computed tomography.http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_14_19 18f-fluorodeoxyglucosemaxillary sinusmetastaticparathyroidpositron emission tomography–computed tomographyrenal cell carcinoma
spellingShingle Alex Khoo
Yew Cheong
Unexpected rare metastases of renal cell carcinoma
World Journal of Nuclear Medicine
18f-fluorodeoxyglucose
maxillary sinus
metastatic
parathyroid
positron emission tomography–computed tomography
renal cell carcinoma
title Unexpected rare metastases of renal cell carcinoma
title_full Unexpected rare metastases of renal cell carcinoma
title_fullStr Unexpected rare metastases of renal cell carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Unexpected rare metastases of renal cell carcinoma
title_short Unexpected rare metastases of renal cell carcinoma
title_sort unexpected rare metastases of renal cell carcinoma
topic 18f-fluorodeoxyglucose
maxillary sinus
metastatic
parathyroid
positron emission tomography–computed tomography
renal cell carcinoma
url http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_14_19
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