Unexpected Origin of Lung Metastases

Abstract

Abstract A 49-year-old woman was referred to our hospital due to suspected lung metastases for 1 month. She had a history of thyroid micropapillary carcinoma and uterine leiomyomas. An 18F-FDG PET/CT scan, which was performed to search the source of the presumed metastasis of the disease, showed multiple lung metastases and 2 18F-FDG–avid foci in the thyroid and colon. Biopsy of lung and resection of colon lesions were then performed, and the disease was finally identified to be rare primary colon leiomyosarcoma with multiple lung metastases.