Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4249318 | Revista Española de Medicina Nuclear | 2006 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We present the cases of two oncology patients: a male with Hodgkin's disease after completion of chemotherapy, and a woman recently diagnosed of melanoma, who underwent positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) with 18F-FDG for therapeutic monitoring and initial staging, respectively. In both cases, hypermetabolic foci of 18F-FDG in lung parenchyma were found, without morphologic abnormalities in CT. These findings would have been consistent with lung pathology in the absence of any anatomic correlation. Combined PET/CT interpretation was of lung microembolisms probably originated at the injection site.
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Authors
M. Coronado Poggio, R.M. Couto Caro, M.E. Lillo GarcÃa, L. Frutos Esteban, M.D. MarÃn Ferrer, L.M. MartÃn Curto,