ea0049ep190 | Endocrine tumours and neoplasia | ECE2017
Karim Rehmat
, Mohammed Kamrudeen
, Zaheer Shah Najeeb
, Fahad Arshad Muhammad
Background: Paragangliomas are extremely rare endocrine tumours and can cause diagnostic difficulty, especially with a coexistent metastatic malignancy.Case: A 78-year-old man with diagnosed metastatic melanoma underwent a PET scan for staging of the malignancy. It showed a left upper quadrant mass with multiple skeletal deposits and a lesion in the pituitary all with intense focal uptake. The mass was unusual for a metastatic lesion from melanoma althou...