Hot liver on 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging—a quandary for oncoradiologists in South Asia

A 56-year-old female presented with intermittent hemoptysis and was diagnosed with lung cancer. (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/CT for staging revealed hypermetabolic liver (hot liver), uptake in the mediastinal lymph nodes and reduced uptake in the kidneys. Unexpectedly, liver...

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Autores principales: B, Vijayakumary, C, Ramachandran, V M, Bharath, Muralee, Madhu, Raj, Jubie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology. 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7527003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33029371
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20190097
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author B, Vijayakumary
C, Ramachandran
V M, Bharath
Muralee, Madhu
Raj, Jubie
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description A 56-year-old female presented with intermittent hemoptysis and was diagnosed with lung cancer. (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/CT for staging revealed hypermetabolic liver (hot liver), uptake in the mediastinal lymph nodes and reduced uptake in the kidneys. Unexpectedly, liver biopsy findings were consistent with tuberculous infection. Following the intensive phase of antituberculous treatment, repeat CT revealed significant resolution of the mediastinal lymph nodes making the lung cancer Stage 1 (T1 lesion). She underwent left lower lobectomy as a definitive surgical treatment. Positron emissiontomography/CT scan in this patient was considered to be a hepatic superscan since it revealed a hot liver.
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spelling pubmed-75270032020-10-06 Hot liver on 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging—a quandary for oncoradiologists in South Asia B, Vijayakumary C, Ramachandran V M, Bharath Muralee, Madhu Raj, Jubie BJR Case Rep Case Report A 56-year-old female presented with intermittent hemoptysis and was diagnosed with lung cancer. (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/CT for staging revealed hypermetabolic liver (hot liver), uptake in the mediastinal lymph nodes and reduced uptake in the kidneys. Unexpectedly, liver biopsy findings were consistent with tuberculous infection. Following the intensive phase of antituberculous treatment, repeat CT revealed significant resolution of the mediastinal lymph nodes making the lung cancer Stage 1 (T1 lesion). She underwent left lower lobectomy as a definitive surgical treatment. Positron emissiontomography/CT scan in this patient was considered to be a hepatic superscan since it revealed a hot liver. The British Institute of Radiology. 2020-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7527003/ /pubmed/33029371 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20190097 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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B, Vijayakumary
C, Ramachandran
V M, Bharath
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Raj, Jubie
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title Hot liver on 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging—a quandary for oncoradiologists in South Asia
title_full Hot liver on 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging—a quandary for oncoradiologists in South Asia
title_fullStr Hot liver on 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging—a quandary for oncoradiologists in South Asia
title_full_unstemmed Hot liver on 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging—a quandary for oncoradiologists in South Asia
title_short Hot liver on 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging—a quandary for oncoradiologists in South Asia
title_sort hot liver on 18f-fdg pet/ct imaging—a quandary for oncoradiologists in south asia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7527003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33029371
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20190097
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