Recurrent adult Wilms tumor with extensive metastases on FDG PET-CT.

Abstract: We report the PET-CT appearance of recurrent Wilms tumor in the surgical bed with multiple metastatic sites in a 30-year-old man. He was initially diagnosed with Wilms tumor in the right kidney with involvement of the right adrenal gland and right renal vein into the inferior vena cava, for which he underwent a right nephrectomy, right adrenalectomy, and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. Three months later, a restaging PET-CT study demonstrated multiple hypermetabolic lesions in the surgical bed region, the left adrenal gland, liver, thoracolumbar spine, retroperitoneal lymph nodes, and peritoneum.

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