68-gallium prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography/computed tomography detects rare testicular metastasis from prostate cancer

Yash Jain; Archi Agrawal; Ganesh Bakshi; Amit Joshi; Santosh Menon; Gagan Prakash; Nilendu Purandare; Ameya Puranik; Sneha Shah; Venkatesh Rangarajan

doi:10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_224_20

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Year : 2021 | Volume : 36 | Issue : 2 | Page : 229-230

68-gallium prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography/computed tomography detects rare testicular metastasis from prostate cancer

Yash Jain¹, Archi Agrawal¹, Ganesh Bakshi², Amit Joshi³, Santosh Menon⁴, Gagan Prakash², Nilendu Purandare¹, Ameya Puranik¹, Sneha Shah¹, Venkatesh Rangarajan¹
¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
² Department of Uroonology, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
³ Department of Medical Oncology, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
⁴ Department of Pathology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Correspondence Address:
Dr. Archi Agrawal
Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Tata Memorial Hospital, E. Borges Road, Parel, TMH, Mumbai - 400 012, Maharashtra
India

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_224_20

Testicular metastases from solid tumors is a rare entity. We describe one such case where a patient on treatment for prostate cancer presented with a right scrotal swelling. For restaging, whole-body 68-gallium prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) was performed. Fused PET/CT images demonstrated intense uptake in the testicular lesion. Unique anatomic and functional information provided by hybrid PET/CT helped in reliably establishing the testicular mass as the site of metastases from prostate cancer, which had a major impact on patient management.

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