Fluroine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computer tomography in staging of renal cell carcinoma arising from a native kidney with liver and bone metastasis in a renal transplant patient

• Main Authors: Koramadai Karuppusamy Kamaleshwaran, Bharat Rangarajan, Raghi Paramben Jose, Ajit Sugunan Shinto
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2018-01-01
• Series: World Journal of Nuclear Medicine
• Subjects: Fluoride-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography; native kidney; renal cell carcinoma; renal transplant
• Online Access: http://www.wjnm.org/article.asp?issn=1450-1147;year=2018;volume=17;issue=4;spage=296;epage=298;aulast=Kamaleshwaran
• ISSN: 1450-1147

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) of the native kidney accounts for <5% of all malignancies found in transplant recipients. There have been only a few reported cases comprising of few renal transplant patients with RCC of native kidneys due to the relative rarity of the condition. Fluorine-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) is used in the staging of RCC. Prognosis of metastatic RCC is poor. We report the first case of 55-year-old postrenal transplant recipient diagnosed with RCC of the native kidney with liver and bone metastases imaged using F-18 FDG PET/CT.