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18F-FDG-PET/CT as an indicator for resection of pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma
- Source :
- Annals of Nuclear Medicine. 22:521-524
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2008.
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Abstract
- A 60-year-old man with a 7-year history of multiple pulmonary nodules presented to our hospital because the nodules were seen to have increased in size on review of films on a regular medical checkup 1 week earlier. Computed tomography (CT) revealed multiple pulmonary nodules with calcification in the lungs. The largest nodule measuring 2.5 cm in the maximum dimension was lobulated and ill-defined. The patient underwent 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/CT (18F-FDG-PET/CT) to evaluate the multiple nodules and to search for a primary lesion. 18F-FDG-PET/CT revealed increased uptake in only two nodules with a standardized uptake value of 4.61 and 2.10, respectively. The two foci with increased 18F-FDG uptake were resected and pathologically proven to be pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (PEH). PEH can transform into malignancy with metastasis. An 18F-FDG-PET/CT finding may be an indicator to decide on PEH resection.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Lung Neoplasms
Standardized uptake value
Malignancy
Hemangioendothelioma
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Preoperative Care
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma
PET-CT
Multiple Pulmonary Nodules
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Nodule (medicine)
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Prognosis
medicine.disease
Positron emission tomography
Positron-Emission Tomography
Hemangioendothelioma, Epithelioid
Radiology
Radiopharmaceuticals
medicine.symptom
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18646433 and 09147187
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annals of Nuclear Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5147a9ff6c85d9cc7faff2f707c343bd