Incidental finding of F-18 FDG skin uptake in a patient with psoriasis during the evaluation of a recurrent papillary thyroid carcinoma
| Autor: | Dimitri Papathanassiou, Amélie Cuif-Job, Jean-Claude Liehn, Claire Bruna-Muraille, Jean-Marie Pochart, Renaud Guedec-Ghelfi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Physical examination Thyroid carcinoma Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 Recurrence Psoriasis medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Thyroid Neoplasms Skin Incidental Findings medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Carcinoma General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Carcinoma Papillary Thyroid Cancer Papillary Positron-Emission Tomography Radiology business Tomography X-Ray Computed |
| Zdroj: | Clinical nuclear medicine. 36(1) |
| ISSN: | 1536-0229 |
| Popis: | We report the case of a patient, referred in our institution for a PET/CT for a suspected recurrence of papillary thyroid carcinoma. An intense cutaneous uptake of FDG was seen in the upper neck region. The clinical examination showed an indurate and thickened red descamative plaque evocative of psoriasis, and the patient reported a long history of psoriatic lesions of the skin, evolving for many years. This case illustrates an incidental finding which must be recognized, and not confounded with other causes of skin uptake. The FDG image is not surprising, as FDG uptake is expected in active inflammatory disease. |
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