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Unusual positron emission tomography findings in pulmonary amyloidosis: a case report

Authors: Sumit Yadav, Sanjay Sharma, Ian Gilfillan

Published in: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery | Issue 1/2006

Abstract

Positron emission tomography (PET) has come to play an increasingly important role in the evaluation of pulmonary lesions, which are suspicious of malignancy. As is true for other techniques, PET gives false positive and negative results. We report a case of pulmonary amyloidosis with multiple pulmonary nodules showing different uptake of 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) on PET. There are limitations of specificity of FDG-PET in characterising pulmonary nodules and it is important to confirm a suspected malignancy with histology before potentially curative treatment is undertaken.

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Title: Unusual positron emission tomography findings in pulmonary amyloidosis: a case report
Authors: Sumit Yadav
Sanjay Sharma
Ian Gilfillan
Publication date: 01-12-2006
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery / Issue 1/2006
Electronic ISSN: 1749-8090
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-1-32

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