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Unusual Presentation of Elastofibroma Dorsi on (18)F-FDG-PET/CT: A Case Report
A 70-year-old male patient underwent an Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography-computed tomography for staging of a left parahilar lung neoplasm found during work-up for fatigue and asthenia. The scan demonstrated a hypermetabolic lung tumor, a hypermetabolic pleural effusion and 4 hypermet...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4998641/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26886641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000002832 |
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author | Martin, Steve P. Gariani, Joanna Tabouret Viaud, Claire |
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description | A 70-year-old male patient underwent an Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography-computed tomography for staging of a left parahilar lung neoplasm found during work-up for fatigue and asthenia. The scan demonstrated a hypermetabolic lung tumor, a hypermetabolic pleural effusion and 4 hypermetabolic bilateral soft tissue lesions of the chest wall corresponding to 4 elastofibroma dorsi. Initially, the oncologic disease was classified as stage IV because of the hypermetabolic pleural effusion. A transbronchial biopsy showed squamous cell carcinoma and the cytology of the pleural effusion revealed no malignant cells. As the other 4 hypermetabolic thoracic wall lesions were correctly diagnosed as benign despite their unusual presentation, the patient underwent surgery by left pneumonectomy and mediastinal lymphadenectomy. The lymph node involvement required adjuvant chemotherapy. Diagnostic confidence of the benignity of the hypermetabolic chest wall lesions allowed a more aggressive treatment with a better outcome after a malignant pleural effusion was excluded. |
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spelling | pubmed-49986412016-09-06 Unusual Presentation of Elastofibroma Dorsi on (18)F-FDG-PET/CT: A Case Report Martin, Steve P. Gariani, Joanna Tabouret Viaud, Claire Medicine (Baltimore) 6800 A 70-year-old male patient underwent an Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography-computed tomography for staging of a left parahilar lung neoplasm found during work-up for fatigue and asthenia. The scan demonstrated a hypermetabolic lung tumor, a hypermetabolic pleural effusion and 4 hypermetabolic bilateral soft tissue lesions of the chest wall corresponding to 4 elastofibroma dorsi. Initially, the oncologic disease was classified as stage IV because of the hypermetabolic pleural effusion. A transbronchial biopsy showed squamous cell carcinoma and the cytology of the pleural effusion revealed no malignant cells. As the other 4 hypermetabolic thoracic wall lesions were correctly diagnosed as benign despite their unusual presentation, the patient underwent surgery by left pneumonectomy and mediastinal lymphadenectomy. The lymph node involvement required adjuvant chemotherapy. Diagnostic confidence of the benignity of the hypermetabolic chest wall lesions allowed a more aggressive treatment with a better outcome after a malignant pleural effusion was excluded. Wolters Kluwer Health 2016-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4998641/ /pubmed/26886641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000002832 Text en Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
spellingShingle | 6800 Martin, Steve P. Gariani, Joanna Tabouret Viaud, Claire Unusual Presentation of Elastofibroma Dorsi on (18)F-FDG-PET/CT: A Case Report |
title | Unusual Presentation of Elastofibroma Dorsi on (18)F-FDG-PET/CT: A Case Report |
title_full | Unusual Presentation of Elastofibroma Dorsi on (18)F-FDG-PET/CT: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | Unusual Presentation of Elastofibroma Dorsi on (18)F-FDG-PET/CT: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Unusual Presentation of Elastofibroma Dorsi on (18)F-FDG-PET/CT: A Case Report |
title_short | Unusual Presentation of Elastofibroma Dorsi on (18)F-FDG-PET/CT: A Case Report |
title_sort | unusual presentation of elastofibroma dorsi on (18)f-fdg-pet/ct: a case report |
topic | 6800 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4998641/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26886641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000002832 |
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