Unusual positron emission tomography findings in pulmonary amyloidosis: a case report

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 pulmo...

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Autores principales: Yadav, Sumit, Sharma, Sanjay, Gilfillan, Ian
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1617090/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17020625
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-1-32
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description 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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spelling pubmed-16170902006-10-19 Unusual positron emission tomography findings in pulmonary amyloidosis: a case report Yadav, Sumit Sharma, Sanjay Gilfillan, Ian J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report 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. BioMed Central 2006-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC1617090/ /pubmed/17020625 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-1-32 Text en Copyright © 2006 Yadav et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Unusual positron emission tomography findings in pulmonary amyloidosis: a case report
title Unusual positron emission tomography findings in pulmonary amyloidosis: a case report
title_full Unusual positron emission tomography findings in pulmonary amyloidosis: a case report
title_fullStr Unusual positron emission tomography findings in pulmonary amyloidosis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Unusual positron emission tomography findings in pulmonary amyloidosis: a case report
title_short Unusual positron emission tomography findings in pulmonary amyloidosis: a case report
title_sort unusual positron emission tomography findings in pulmonary amyloidosis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1617090/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17020625
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-1-32
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