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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 22.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Nucl Med. 2019 May 30;33(8):617–623. doi: 10.1007/s12149-019-01371-8

Table 2.

Sites of clear cell RCC detected on conventional imaging and PSMA-targeted 18F-DCFPyL PET/CT

Patient # Number of metastatic sites on conventional imaginga Sites of disease on conventional imaging Number of metastatic sites on PET/CTa Sites of disease on PET/CT (SUVmax) Time between conventional imaging and PET/CT (days) Continue to be oligometastatic?

1 1 Adrenal gland 0 N/A 24 Yes
2 1 Retroperitoneal lymph node 6 Subcarinal lymph node (3.5 and 3.3), pancreas (4.2 and 2.8), Paracolic gutter (2.6, 1.8) 13 No
3 1 Mediastinum, Primary kidney 0 Primary kidney (9.6) 6 Yes
4 2 Lung, primary kidney 3 Lung (38.5 and 1.3), bone (3.9), primary kidney (15.8) 43 Yes
5 2 Breast, brain 2 Breast (10.6), brain (2.5) 25 Yes
6 2 Bone 4 Bone (2.08, 2.47, 2.33, 2.67) 43 No
7 2 Pancreas, Retroperitoneal lymph node 2 Pancreas (2.9), retroperitoneal lymph node (3.6) 25 Yes
8 1 Adrenal gland 1 Adrenal gland (N/Ab) 3 Yes
9 2 Pancreas, contralateral kidney 5 Pancreas (4.6), contralateral kidney (5.2), lung (0.9), retroperitoneal lymph node (2.7), bone (1.8) 61 No
10 1 Retroperitoneal lymph node, primary kidney 0 Primary kidney (7.3) 7 Yes
11 1 Adrenal gland 1 Adrenal gland (2.7) 74 Yes
12 1 Renal fossa 1 Renal fossa (9.4) 7 Yes
13 1 Retroperitoneal lymph node 1 Retroperitoneal lymph node (8.2) 17 Yes
14 3 Retroperitoneal lymph node, adrenal gland 3 Retroperitoneal lymph node (2.2), adrenal gland (1.9, 2.2) 1 Yes

Lesions visible on only one imaging modality indicated by italics

a

Primary tumors of the kidney are not included in the total number of metastatic sites

b

Lesion was too close to liver to accurately obtain SUVmax