A rare case of extrapulmonary small cell carcinoma in prostate and its clinical course using serial 18F-FDG PET-CT images. | [Pakistan Journal of Nuclear Medicine • 2014]

Author(s):

1. Muhammad Kashif Rahim: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Multan Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy, Multan, Pakistan

2. Hyo Jung Seo: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

3. Durr-E-Sabih: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Multan Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy, Multan, Pakistan

4. Dong Soo Lee: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

5. June Key Chung: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Abstract:

Extrapulmonary small cell cancer (ESCC) of the prostate represents less than 1% of the prostate carcinomas and has a poor prognosis. A 63-year-old male patient presented with dysuria and nocturia and the initial ultrasonography and CT revealed a prostatic mass. On initial 18F-FDG PET-CT, the prostatic mass showed intense FDG uptake and multiple abdominal lymph nodes (LNs) with intense uptake were visualized. Prostatectomy wasdone and ESCC of prostate was diagnosed pathologically. First follow-up 18F-FDG PET-CT after chemo-radiation therapy showed near complete remission of the disease. However, second follow-up 18F-FDG PET-CT showed multiple distant metastases in lung, LNs, bone and brain.

Page(s): 86-92

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Published: Journal: Pakistan Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Year: 2014

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