Abstract
FDG PET/CT scan was performed to evaluate recurrence in an asymptomatic 64-year-old man with a history of melanoma in the left posterior ear. PET/CT images showed an intense ring-shaped area of FDG activity in the posterior mediastinum in a large posterior mediastinal mass. However, further evaluation indicated that this activity was caused by an intramediastinal gossypiboma after coronary artery bypass graft surgery 4 years before the PET/CT scan.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 344-345 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Clinical Nuclear Medicine |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2008 |
Keywords
- Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
- Foreign-Body Reaction/diagnostic imaging
- Humans
- Incidental Findings
- Male
- Melanoma/diagnostic imaging
- Middle Aged
- Positron-Emission Tomography/methods
- Radiopharmaceuticals
- Surgical Sponges/adverse effects