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An unusual presentation of a sarcoidosis that mimicked lymphatic metastatize non small cell lung carcinoma in positron emission tomography: a case report

In the last decade, several sophisticated and accurate imaging methods such as positron emission tomography have been developed in order to evaluate malignant potential in enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes. This case illustrates an unusual presentation of sarcoidosis that mimicked lymphatic metastase...

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Autores principales: Dzemali, Omer, Papadopoulos, Nestoras, Bakhtiary, Farhad, Therapidis, Panagiotis, Kleine, Peter
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918539
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6718
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author Dzemali, Omer
Papadopoulos, Nestoras
Bakhtiary, Farhad
Therapidis, Panagiotis
Kleine, Peter
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Papadopoulos, Nestoras
Bakhtiary, Farhad
Therapidis, Panagiotis
Kleine, Peter
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description In the last decade, several sophisticated and accurate imaging methods such as positron emission tomography have been developed in order to evaluate malignant potential in enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes. This case illustrates an unusual presentation of sarcoidosis that mimicked lymphatic metastases of non small cell lung carcinoma. The reported high specificity and sensitivity of positron emission tomography-Computer Tomography regarding mediastinal staging could lead in same cases of false positives to a delaying of stage adapted therapy of non small cell lung carcinoma, showing that despite the recent advances of imaging techniques, such as positron emission tomography-computer tomography, several limitations of this imaging technique are still existing.
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spelling pubmed-27693092009-11-16 An unusual presentation of a sarcoidosis that mimicked lymphatic metastatize non small cell lung carcinoma in positron emission tomography: a case report Dzemali, Omer Papadopoulos, Nestoras Bakhtiary, Farhad Therapidis, Panagiotis Kleine, Peter Cases J Case report In the last decade, several sophisticated and accurate imaging methods such as positron emission tomography have been developed in order to evaluate malignant potential in enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes. This case illustrates an unusual presentation of sarcoidosis that mimicked lymphatic metastases of non small cell lung carcinoma. The reported high specificity and sensitivity of positron emission tomography-Computer Tomography regarding mediastinal staging could lead in same cases of false positives to a delaying of stage adapted therapy of non small cell lung carcinoma, showing that despite the recent advances of imaging techniques, such as positron emission tomography-computer tomography, several limitations of this imaging technique are still existing. Cases Network Ltd 2009-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2769309/ /pubmed/19918539 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6718 Text en © 2009 Dzemali et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case report
Dzemali, Omer
Papadopoulos, Nestoras
Bakhtiary, Farhad
Therapidis, Panagiotis
Kleine, Peter
An unusual presentation of a sarcoidosis that mimicked lymphatic metastatize non small cell lung carcinoma in positron emission tomography: a case report
title An unusual presentation of a sarcoidosis that mimicked lymphatic metastatize non small cell lung carcinoma in positron emission tomography: a case report
title_full An unusual presentation of a sarcoidosis that mimicked lymphatic metastatize non small cell lung carcinoma in positron emission tomography: a case report
title_fullStr An unusual presentation of a sarcoidosis that mimicked lymphatic metastatize non small cell lung carcinoma in positron emission tomography: a case report
title_full_unstemmed An unusual presentation of a sarcoidosis that mimicked lymphatic metastatize non small cell lung carcinoma in positron emission tomography: a case report
title_short An unusual presentation of a sarcoidosis that mimicked lymphatic metastatize non small cell lung carcinoma in positron emission tomography: a case report
title_sort unusual presentation of a sarcoidosis that mimicked lymphatic metastatize non small cell lung carcinoma in positron emission tomography: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918539
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6718
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