Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Masquerading as Para-aortic Lymphadenopathy on F-18 FDG PET/CT in a Patient with Carcinoma Cervix

We present a case of carcinoma cervix found to have a soft tissue lesion in retroperitoneal region with intense FDG uptake. However, this FDG uptake was false positive as the final diagnosis was retroperitoneal fibrosis.

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Autores principales: Kashyap, R., Mittal, B.R., Kumari, S., Bhattacharya, A., Singh, B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22034580
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1450-1147.82113
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author Kashyap, R.
Mittal, B.R.
Kumari, S.
Bhattacharya, A.
Singh, B.
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spelling pubmed-31980432011-10-27 Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Masquerading as Para-aortic Lymphadenopathy on F-18 FDG PET/CT in a Patient with Carcinoma Cervix Kashyap, R. Mittal, B.R. Kumari, S. Bhattacharya, A. Singh, B. World J Nucl Med Case Report We present a case of carcinoma cervix found to have a soft tissue lesion in retroperitoneal region with intense FDG uptake. However, this FDG uptake was false positive as the final diagnosis was retroperitoneal fibrosis. Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3198043/ /pubmed/22034580 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1450-1147.82113 Text en Copyright: © World Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Kashyap, R.
Mittal, B.R.
Kumari, S.
Bhattacharya, A.
Singh, B.
Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Masquerading as Para-aortic Lymphadenopathy on F-18 FDG PET/CT in a Patient with Carcinoma Cervix
title Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Masquerading as Para-aortic Lymphadenopathy on F-18 FDG PET/CT in a Patient with Carcinoma Cervix
title_full Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Masquerading as Para-aortic Lymphadenopathy on F-18 FDG PET/CT in a Patient with Carcinoma Cervix
title_fullStr Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Masquerading as Para-aortic Lymphadenopathy on F-18 FDG PET/CT in a Patient with Carcinoma Cervix
title_full_unstemmed Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Masquerading as Para-aortic Lymphadenopathy on F-18 FDG PET/CT in a Patient with Carcinoma Cervix
title_short Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Masquerading as Para-aortic Lymphadenopathy on F-18 FDG PET/CT in a Patient with Carcinoma Cervix
title_sort retroperitoneal fibrosis masquerading as para-aortic lymphadenopathy on f-18 fdg pet/ct in a patient with carcinoma cervix
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22034580
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1450-1147.82113
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