Photon-deficient Mass on FDG-PET Scan in Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report

Abstract

F-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography imaging (F-18 FDG PET) detects malignancies depending on the uptake profi le of glycolysis of tumors; however, the role of FDG PET is limited in the evaluation of primary renal malignancy because of low FDG uptake by renal cell carcinoma and also because normal urinary excretion of FDG seen in the images. A patient with renal cell carcinoma whose FDG PET imaging study incidentally shows a photon-defi cient mass in the upper pole of the right kidney is present here. The diagnosis is also validated by the histopathological fi ndings of tumor necrosis, hemorrhage, and scars.