Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2008 Dec 1;8(1):216-9.
doi: 10.1102/1470-7330.2008.0033.

Isolated asymptomatic skeletal muscle metastasis in a potentially resectable non-small cell lung cancer: detection with FDG PET-CT scanning

Nilendu C Purandare  1 , Venkatesh Rangarajan, Conjeevaram S Pramesh, Anshu Rajnish, Sneha Shah, Sumeet G Dua
Affiliations

Isolated asymptomatic skeletal muscle metastasis in a potentially resectable non-small cell lung cancer: detection with FDG PET-CT scanning

Nilendu C Purandare et al. Cancer Imaging. .

Abstract

Asymptomatic skeletal muscle metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer is a rare event particularly when it is detected at initial staging. This report describes how whole body imaging with [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)-computed tomography (CT) detected a solitary asymptomatic metastasis to the gluteus maximus muscle in a potentially resectable case of non-small cell lung cancer, thereby changing the treatment plan from surgical resection to systemic chemotherapy.

PubMed Disclaimer

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
(A) CT scan showing the primary lung mass in the left upper lobe (long white arrow) and the enlarged mediastinal node (short white arrow). (B,C) Axial PET and fusion PET-CT images show the FDG avid mass in the left upper lobe (long arrow) and mediastinal node (short arrow).
Figure 2
Figure 2
(A) Fusion PET-CT image shows the FDG avid nodule in the left gluteus maximum muscle (white arrow). (B) Ultrasonography shows a hypoechoic nodule in the gluteus maximum muscle. Guided fine needle aspiration was performed from this nodule. (C) Coronal short tau inversion recovery (STIR) MRI image shows a hyperintense nodule in the left gluteus maximus muscle.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

    1. Mountain CF. Revisions in the international system for staging lung cancer. Chest. 1997;111:1710–17. - PubMed
    1. Pantel K, Izbicki J, Passlick B, et al. Frequency and prognostic significance of isolated tumour cells in bone marrow of patients with non-small cell lung cancer without overt metastases. Lancet. 1996;347:649–53. - PubMed
    1. Mavi A, Lakhani P, Zhuang H, Gupta NC, Alavi A. Fluorodeoxyglucose-PET in characterizing solitary pulmonary nodules, assessing pleural diseases, and the initial staging, restaging, therapy planning, and monitoring response of lung cancer. Radiol Clin North Am. 2005;43:1–21. - PubMed
    1. Sridhar KS, Rao RK, Kunhardt B. Skeletal muscle metastases from lung cancer. Cancer. 1987;59:1530–4. - PubMed
    1. McKeown PP, Conant P, Auerbach LE. Squamous cell carcinoma of the lung: an unusual metastasis to pectoralis muscle. Ann Thorac Surg. 1996;61:1525–6. - PubMed

MeSH terms

Substances

LinkOut - more resources