Huge Abdominal Photopenic Area Due to Kidney Cyst Imaged by Bone Scintigraphy in a Prostate Cancer Patient. (November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sioka, Chrissa; Gkika, Evangelia; Paliouras, Athanasios; Giannakis, John; Fotopoulos, Andreas
• Is Part Of: Clinical nuclear medicine. Volume 43:Number 11(2018)
• Publication Date: 2018-11
• Subjects: prostate cancer -- bone scan -- radiological imaging -- CT -- kidney cyst; Nuclear medicine -- Periodicals; Radioisotope scanning -- Periodicals; Nuclear Medicine -- Periodicals; 616.07575
• DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002282
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0363-9762

Abstract

Abstract : Abstract: Bone scintigraphy is a method of choice in evaluating metastatic disease in patients with prostatic cancer. We describe the case of a 77-year-old man who was subjected to bone scan for evaluation of secondary metastatic disease due to an elevated prostatic-specific antigen level (7.2). Bone scintigraphy demonstrated a huge photopenic area in the left upper abdominal area, as a result of a huge kidney cyst (15 × 13 cm).