PET-positive fibrous dysplasia--a potentially misleading incidental finding in a patient with intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary artery.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Benign bone tumors can show an increased FDG uptake in FDG-PET/CT investigations. In the presented case, an incidentally detected PET-positive asymptomatic fibrous dysplasia was initially misinterpreted as a metastasis in a patient with intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary artery.
Medical subject headings
- Fibrous Dysplasia of Bone
- Pulmonary Artery
- Sarcoma
- Tomography, Emission-Computed
- Vascular Neoplasms