Primary Pulmonary Mucinous Adenocarcinoma Was Better Visualized on Delayed FDG PET/CT Imaging

A 36-year-old man underwent FDG PET/CT to evaluate a lung mass in the right middle lobe. The mass on the early PET images that were acquired 50 minutes post-FDG injection had only minimally increased FDG activity with uptake ratio between the mass and mediastinal blood pool of 0.93. However, on the...

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Published inClinical nuclear medicine Vol. 41; no. 10; p. 809
Main Authors Zheng, Na, Bai, Xia, Niu, Ruilong, Wang, Xuemei
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.10.2016
Subjects
Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous - diagnostic imaging
Adult
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Humans
Lung Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
Male
Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography
Radiopharmaceuticals
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Summary:A 36-year-old man underwent FDG PET/CT to evaluate a lung mass in the right middle lobe. The mass on the early PET images that were acquired 50 minutes post-FDG injection had only minimally increased FDG activity with uptake ratio between the mass and mediastinal blood pool of 0.93. However, on the delayed images acquired 230 minutes post-FDG administration, this ratio increased to 3.0, which enabled better notion of the lesion. Pathological examination demonstrated a primary pulmonary mucinous adenocarcinoma.
ISSN:1536-0229
DOI:10.1097/RLU.0000000000001321