Diagnosis of an unusual case of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis by (18)F-FDG PET/CT

Diagnosis of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis was done by exclusion in a 54-year-old woman with dyspnoea, chest pain, cough and fatigue showing positivity of 2-deoxy-2-[(18)F]fluoro-D-glucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography total body imaging which turned out to normal after six and...

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Autores principales: Carbone, Roberto G., Murdaca, Giuseppe, Negrini, Simone, Penna, Daniele, Puppo, Francesco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
Materias:
Nuclear Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7029048/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32099588
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.01.022
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Sumario:Diagnosis of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis was done by exclusion in a 54-year-old woman with dyspnoea, chest pain, cough and fatigue showing positivity of 2-deoxy-2-[(18)F]fluoro-D-glucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography total body imaging which turned out to normal after six and eighteen months of prednisone and pirfernidone treatment.

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