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. 2022 Jan-Mar;37(1):103-104.
doi: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_90_21. Epub 2022 Mar 25.

18F-Labeled Fluoro-2-Deoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography and Computed Tomography in a Large Pulmonary Sclerosing Pneumocytoma with Contralateral Lung Metastasis

Ranganath Thippanahalli Ganga  1 , Mudalsha Ravina  2 , Dibakar Sahu  1 , Rakesh Kumar Gupta  3 , Saroj Kumar Pati  4
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18F-Labeled Fluoro-2-Deoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography and Computed Tomography in a Large Pulmonary Sclerosing Pneumocytoma with Contralateral Lung Metastasis

Ranganath Thippanahalli Ganga et al. Indian J Nucl Med. 2022 Jan-Mar.

Abstract

Pulmonary sclerosing pneumocytoma is an exceedingly rare neoplasm of the lung. These tumors are usually slow growing with a benign disease course but can easily be mistaken for carcinoid tumors or adenocarcinoma in cytology or histopathology specimens. Rare occurrences of metastases have been reported in the literature making 18F-labeled fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography and computed tomography useful for the evaluation of these tumors.

Keywords: Fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography and computed tomography; pulmonary sclerosing hemangioma; pulmonary sclerosing pneumocytoma.

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Figures

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Figure 1
Panels (a-b) are chest radiographs of the patient showing the opacities in the bilateral lung fields. Panel (c) shows the whole body 18F-FDG PET/ CT maximum intensity projection inhomogeneous FDG uptake in the right hemithorax and a faint focal FDG uptake in the left hemithorax. Panels (d-g) shows the computed tomography and fused PET/CT images showing the lung masses. Panels (h-i) shows the low power and high-power hematoxylin and eosin-stained slides showing cuboidal to columnar atypical cells displaying small round vesicular nuclei, inconspicuous nucleoli and moderate amount of pale eosinophilic cytoplasm.
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