False-Positive Hypermetabolic Lesions on Post-Treatment PET-CT after Influenza Vaccination

We report a case of a 59-year-old man with testicular germ cell tumor who showed new hypermetabolic lesions at the left axillary lymph nodes on a post-treatment positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scan. The hypermetabolic lesions were found to be caused by an influenza vaccinat...

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Autores principales: Kim, Jeong-Eun, Kim, Eun Kyoung, Lee, Dae Ho, Kim, Sang-We, Suh, Cheolwon, Lee, Jung-Shin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: The Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3110855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21716913
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2011.26.2.210
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author Kim, Jeong-Eun
Kim, Eun Kyoung
Lee, Dae Ho
Kim, Sang-We
Suh, Cheolwon
Lee, Jung-Shin
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description We report a case of a 59-year-old man with testicular germ cell tumor who showed new hypermetabolic lesions at the left axillary lymph nodes on a post-treatment positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scan. The hypermetabolic lesions were found to be caused by an influenza vaccination 10 days prior to the PET-CT scan and disappeared without additional treatment. To date, he is alive with complete remission.
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spelling pubmed-31108552011-06-28 False-Positive Hypermetabolic Lesions on Post-Treatment PET-CT after Influenza Vaccination Kim, Jeong-Eun Kim, Eun Kyoung Lee, Dae Ho Kim, Sang-We Suh, Cheolwon Lee, Jung-Shin Korean J Intern Med Case Report We report a case of a 59-year-old man with testicular germ cell tumor who showed new hypermetabolic lesions at the left axillary lymph nodes on a post-treatment positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scan. The hypermetabolic lesions were found to be caused by an influenza vaccination 10 days prior to the PET-CT scan and disappeared without additional treatment. To date, he is alive with complete remission. The Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2011-06 2011-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3110855/ /pubmed/21716913 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2011.26.2.210 Text en Copyright © 2011 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short False-Positive Hypermetabolic Lesions on Post-Treatment PET-CT after Influenza Vaccination
title_sort false-positive hypermetabolic lesions on post-treatment pet-ct after influenza vaccination
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3110855/
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