Case report: Imaging findings of true thymic hyperplasia at (18)F-FDG PET/CT in an infant

True thymic hyperplasia (TTH) in children is rare and difficult to distinguish from other thymic tumors such as thymoma and thymic carcinoma. A 3‐year‐old girl underwent an (18)F‐fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F‐FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scan ((18)F‐FDG PET/CT) and a...

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Autores principales: Ren, Jiazhong, Fu, Zheng, Zhao, Yaqing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9853067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36686837
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.1077777
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description True thymic hyperplasia (TTH) in children is rare and difficult to distinguish from other thymic tumors such as thymoma and thymic carcinoma. A 3‐year‐old girl underwent an (18)F‐fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F‐FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scan ((18)F‐FDG PET/CT) and a chest CT scan to evaluate an anterior mediastinal mass. (18)F‐FDG PET/CT revealed a mediastinal mass showing heterogeneously increased FDG uptake with a maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) of 7.1. Eventually, postoperative pathological diagnosis demonstrated TTH. So far, there are no reports of (18)F‐FDG PET/CT imaging of this disease.
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spelling pubmed-98530672023-01-21 Case report: Imaging findings of true thymic hyperplasia at (18)F-FDG PET/CT in an infant Ren, Jiazhong Fu, Zheng Zhao, Yaqing Front Oncol Oncology True thymic hyperplasia (TTH) in children is rare and difficult to distinguish from other thymic tumors such as thymoma and thymic carcinoma. A 3‐year‐old girl underwent an (18)F‐fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F‐FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scan ((18)F‐FDG PET/CT) and a chest CT scan to evaluate an anterior mediastinal mass. (18)F‐FDG PET/CT revealed a mediastinal mass showing heterogeneously increased FDG uptake with a maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) of 7.1. Eventually, postoperative pathological diagnosis demonstrated TTH. So far, there are no reports of (18)F‐FDG PET/CT imaging of this disease. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9853067/ /pubmed/36686837 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.1077777 Text en Copyright © 2023 Ren, Fu and Zhao https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Ren, Jiazhong
Fu, Zheng
Zhao, Yaqing
Case report: Imaging findings of true thymic hyperplasia at (18)F-FDG PET/CT in an infant
title Case report: Imaging findings of true thymic hyperplasia at (18)F-FDG PET/CT in an infant
title_full Case report: Imaging findings of true thymic hyperplasia at (18)F-FDG PET/CT in an infant
title_fullStr Case report: Imaging findings of true thymic hyperplasia at (18)F-FDG PET/CT in an infant
title_full_unstemmed Case report: Imaging findings of true thymic hyperplasia at (18)F-FDG PET/CT in an infant
title_short Case report: Imaging findings of true thymic hyperplasia at (18)F-FDG PET/CT in an infant
title_sort case report: imaging findings of true thymic hyperplasia at (18)f-fdg pet/ct in an infant
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9853067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36686837
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.1077777
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