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Chest clinic
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Asymptomatic muscle metastasis from pulmonary adenocarcinoma
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- Lung adenocarcinoma
- skeletal muscle
- cancer metastasis
- FDG-PET/CT
- imaging/CT MRI
- lung cancer
- non-small cell lung cancer
A 62-year-old never-smoker woman was admitted with a 2-month history of progressive dyspnoea. Her CT scan showed a 3×4 cm lung mass in the right upper lobe. Tumour biopsy revealed an adenocarcinoma. Integrated [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET)/CT scan for staging demonstrated hypermetabolic FDG uptake in the lung mass (figure 1A) and an unexpectedly focal FDG uptake in the left paraspinal muscle (figure …