PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Wei-Jen Shih
AU  - Ramon A.L. Romero
AU  - Mullet Timothy
AU  - Primo P. Milan
TI  - <sup>99m</sup>Tc-Depreotide Chest SPECT Demonstrates Pulmonary Metastases from Renal Cell Carcinoma
DP  - 2004 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - 19--21
VI  - 32
IP  - 1
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/32/1/19.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/32/1/19.full
SO  - J. Nucl. Med. Technol.2004 Mar 01; 32
AB  - 99mTc-Depreotide has been used on single pulmonary nodules to identify somatostatin receptor-positive lung cancer. We report that pulmonary metastases of a 78-y-old man with postradical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma were detected by 99mTc-depreotide chest SPECT. Thus, 99mTc-depreotide chest SPECT can be used to diagnose secondary lung cancer, such as pulmonary metastases from renal cell carcinoma with somatostatin receptor-positive tumor, other than primary lung cancer. Depending on whether the 99mTc-depreotide was positive for pulmonary metastases, the patient underwent an appropriate therapy without further invasive procedures.