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01.02.2011 | Case Report
Imaging of acquired cystic disease-associated renal cell carcinoma by contrast-enhanced ultrasonography with perflubutane microbubbles and positron emission tomography-computed tomography
verfasst von:
Isao Ishikawa, Kyoko Morita, Satoshi Hayama, Tetsuya Nakazawa, Ichiro Araki, Kotaro Higashi, Katsuhito Miyazawa, Koji Suzuki, Takayuki Nojima
Erschienen in:
Clinical and Experimental Nephrology
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Ausgabe 1/2011
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Abstract
The preoperative assessment of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) complicated with acquired renal cystic disease in a 63-year-old male patient on long-term hemodialysis (30 years and 8 months) that was difficult because of no or poor contrast enhancement by dynamic CT scan is reported. Contrast-enhanced ultrasonography with perflubutane microbubbles and positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) with 18F-fluorodeoxy glucose (FDG) in addition to dynamic CT were effective and useful for preoperative assessment of this patient. The pathological subtype of RCC in this patient was acquired cystic disease-associated RCC (ACD-associated RCC), which has been newly defined by Tickoo et al. (Am J Surg Pathol 30:141–153, 2006).