A Patient with a Benign and a Malignant Primary Pulmonary Meningioma: An Evaluation with 18F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography and Computed Tomography with Iodinated Contrast

An 80-year-old male with a previous history of thymoma and kidney cancer underwent a (18)F fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan: two pulmonary nodules were discovered, both characterized by an increased glucose uptake. Of them, o...

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Autores principales: Cimini, Andrea, Ricci, Francesca, Pugliese, Luca, Chiaravalloti, Agostino, Schillaci, Orazio, Floris, Roberto
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30713380
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_101_18
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author Cimini, Andrea
Ricci, Francesca
Pugliese, Luca
Chiaravalloti, Agostino
Schillaci, Orazio
Floris, Roberto
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Ricci, Francesca
Pugliese, Luca
Chiaravalloti, Agostino
Schillaci, Orazio
Floris, Roberto
author_sort Cimini, Andrea
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description An 80-year-old male with a previous history of thymoma and kidney cancer underwent a (18)F fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan: two pulmonary nodules were discovered, both characterized by an increased glucose uptake. Of them, only one showed mild contrast enhancement. Both nodules were surgically resected: the first nodule was a benign meningioma and the second one was a malignant meningioma. This case study shows that malignancy of meningioma in the lung is not correlated with (18)F FDG uptake and the contrast enhancement, thus suggesting that PET/CT may represent a suboptimal imaging modality for the evaluation of these lesions.
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spelling pubmed-63526492019-02-01 A Patient with a Benign and a Malignant Primary Pulmonary Meningioma: An Evaluation with 18F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography and Computed Tomography with Iodinated Contrast Cimini, Andrea Ricci, Francesca Pugliese, Luca Chiaravalloti, Agostino Schillaci, Orazio Floris, Roberto Indian J Nucl Med Case Report An 80-year-old male with a previous history of thymoma and kidney cancer underwent a (18)F fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan: two pulmonary nodules were discovered, both characterized by an increased glucose uptake. Of them, only one showed mild contrast enhancement. Both nodules were surgically resected: the first nodule was a benign meningioma and the second one was a malignant meningioma. This case study shows that malignancy of meningioma in the lung is not correlated with (18)F FDG uptake and the contrast enhancement, thus suggesting that PET/CT may represent a suboptimal imaging modality for the evaluation of these lesions. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6352649/ /pubmed/30713380 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_101_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Case Report
Cimini, Andrea
Ricci, Francesca
Pugliese, Luca
Chiaravalloti, Agostino
Schillaci, Orazio
Floris, Roberto
A Patient with a Benign and a Malignant Primary Pulmonary Meningioma: An Evaluation with 18F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography and Computed Tomography with Iodinated Contrast
title A Patient with a Benign and a Malignant Primary Pulmonary Meningioma: An Evaluation with 18F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography and Computed Tomography with Iodinated Contrast
title_full A Patient with a Benign and a Malignant Primary Pulmonary Meningioma: An Evaluation with 18F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography and Computed Tomography with Iodinated Contrast
title_fullStr A Patient with a Benign and a Malignant Primary Pulmonary Meningioma: An Evaluation with 18F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography and Computed Tomography with Iodinated Contrast
title_full_unstemmed A Patient with a Benign and a Malignant Primary Pulmonary Meningioma: An Evaluation with 18F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography and Computed Tomography with Iodinated Contrast
title_short A Patient with a Benign and a Malignant Primary Pulmonary Meningioma: An Evaluation with 18F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography and Computed Tomography with Iodinated Contrast
title_sort patient with a benign and a malignant primary pulmonary meningioma: an evaluation with 18f fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography and computed tomography with iodinated contrast
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30713380
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_101_18
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