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Metachronous Brain Tumor in 177Lu-PSMA Scan in a Patient with Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer Mimicking Disease Progression

10.4274/mirt.galenos.2021.55376

• Elahe Pirayesh
• Mehrdad Tavakoli

Received Date: 28.06.2020 Accepted Date: 05.01.2021 Mol Imaging Radionucl Ther 2023;32(1):54-56 PMID: 36819190

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A 66-year old man known case of metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer underwent successful 6 cycles treatment with 177Lu- prostate-specific membrane antigen. On the last post therapy whole body scan a new lesion in the skull was noted, suspected for disease progression. One week later, the patient complained from weakness of left upper extremity and brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed a brain tumor, confirmed as glioblastoma pathologically.

Keywords: PSMA, mCRPC, glioblastoma, prostate cancer

Ethics

Informed Consent: The patient consent was obtained.

Peer-review: Externally and internally peer-reviewed.

Authorship Contributions

Surgical and Medical Practices: E.P., M.T., Concept: E.P., M.T., Design: E.P., M.T., Data Collection or Processing: E.P., M.T., Analysis or Interpretation: E.P., M.T., Literature Search: E.P., M.T., Writing: E.P., M.T.

Conflict of Interest: No conflict of interest was declare by the authors.

Financial Disclosure: The authors declared that this study received no financial support.

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