Abstract

Cardiac metastases are frequent (10%–12%) at autopsy of patients who have died of advanced cancers, but are usually clinically unrecognized. Melanoma, lymphoma, lung, and breast cancers are the main tumors inducing cardiac metastases. We present a case of cardiac metastasis which accumulated F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose and F-18 fluorodihydroxyphenylalanine in a 56-year-old woman with recurrent medullary thyroid carcinoma.

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