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DIAGNOSTICS
Volume 13, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13132234
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cardiac metastasis; malignant melanoma; F-18-FDG; PET/CT
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A 63-year-old man with a history of right plantar malignant melanoma developed multiple pulmonary metastases and a cardiac metastasis. F-18-FDG PET/CT was effective in detecting both pulmonary and cardiac metastases, as confirmed by dynamic myocardial perfusion MR.
A 63-year-old man with a history of right plantar malignant melanoma (T3bN0M0, IIb) developed multiple metastases in bilateral lungs 19 months after surgery. Subsequent F-18-FDG PET/CT revealed multiple pulmonary metastases with intense FDG uptake and detected a hypermetabolic lesion in the lateral wall of the left ventricle, which was considered to be a cardiac metastasis of malignant melanoma. This lesion was later confirmed in the dynamic myocardial perfusion MR. This case demonstrates the effectiveness of F-18-FDG PET/CT in detecting occult cardiac metastases of malignant melanoma.
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