Not All That Shines on a PET Scan Is Cancer: A Silicone-Induced Granuloma Masquerading as Malignancy

PET/CT scans are frequently used in the initial workup of suspicious lesions but not all that lights up on a PET is cancerous. We wish to discuss a case of silicone-induced granuloma mimicking malignancy and the role of other imaging modalities for further workup.

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Autores principales: Vedala, Krishna, Sobash, Philip T., Johnson, Deborah, Kakkera, Krishna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7774518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33599216
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/clinpract11010003
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spelling pubmed-77745182021-01-27 Not All That Shines on a PET Scan Is Cancer: A Silicone-Induced Granuloma Masquerading as Malignancy Vedala, Krishna Sobash, Philip T. Johnson, Deborah Kakkera, Krishna Clin Pract Case Report PET/CT scans are frequently used in the initial workup of suspicious lesions but not all that lights up on a PET is cancerous. We wish to discuss a case of silicone-induced granuloma mimicking malignancy and the role of other imaging modalities for further workup. MDPI 2020-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7774518/ /pubmed/33599216 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/clinpract11010003 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Not All That Shines on a PET Scan Is Cancer: A Silicone-Induced Granuloma Masquerading as Malignancy
title Not All That Shines on a PET Scan Is Cancer: A Silicone-Induced Granuloma Masquerading as Malignancy
title_full Not All That Shines on a PET Scan Is Cancer: A Silicone-Induced Granuloma Masquerading as Malignancy
title_fullStr Not All That Shines on a PET Scan Is Cancer: A Silicone-Induced Granuloma Masquerading as Malignancy
title_full_unstemmed Not All That Shines on a PET Scan Is Cancer: A Silicone-Induced Granuloma Masquerading as Malignancy
title_short Not All That Shines on a PET Scan Is Cancer: A Silicone-Induced Granuloma Masquerading as Malignancy
title_sort not all that shines on a pet scan is cancer: a silicone-induced granuloma masquerading as malignancy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7774518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33599216
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/clinpract11010003
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