Unusual positron emission tomography findings in pulmonary amyloidosis: a case report
| Autor: | Sumit Yadav, Sanjay Sharma, Ian Gilfillan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Předmět: |
Lung Diseases
Male Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine medicine.medical_specialty Pathology lcsh:Surgery Pulmonary amyloidosis Case Report Malignancy lcsh:RD78.3-87.3 Suspected malignancy Humans Medicine Aged 80 and over Multiple Pulmonary Nodules medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Amyloidosis General Medicine lcsh:RD1-811 medicine.disease Cardiac surgery Cardiothoracic surgery Positron emission tomography lcsh:Anesthesiology Positron-Emission Tomography Surgery Radiology business Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Vol 1, Iss 1, p 32 (2006) Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery |
| ISSN: | 1749-8090 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1749-8090-1-32 |
| Popis: | Positron emission tomography (PET) has come to play an increasingly important role in the evaluation of pulmonary lesions, which are suspicious of malignancy. As is true for other techniques, PET gives false positive and negative results. We report a case of pulmonary amyloidosis with multiple pulmonary nodules showing different uptake of 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) on PET. There are limitations of specificity of FDG-PET in characterising pulmonary nodules and it is important to confirm a suspected malignancy with histology before potentially curative treatment is undertaken. |
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