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An Unusual Case of Simultaneous Cricoid and Thyroid Cartilage Metastases from Prostatic Adenocarcinoma on 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT

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Although prostate cancer can metastasize to any part of the body, laryngeal cartilage metastasis is extremely rare and few cases have been published so far. Here we present the case of a 65-year-old male patient, recently diagnosed with prostate adenocarcinoma, referred for staging with 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT. He was found to have extensive skeletal metastasis along with cartilage metastasis involving both thyroid and cricoid cartilages.

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    Avinash Tupalli, Nishikant Avinash Damle, ArunRaj Sreedharan Thankarajan, Bharadwaj Srinivas Mangu, Arunav Kumar, Dikhra Khan, Sambit Sagar & Chandrasekhar Bal

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Tupalli, A., Damle, N.A., Thankarajan, A.S. et al. An Unusual Case of Simultaneous Cricoid and Thyroid Cartilage Metastases from Prostatic Adenocarcinoma on 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT. Nucl Med Mol Imaging 54, 61–62 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13139-019-00625-7

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