title: FDG-PET appearance of pelvic Castleman's disease.
abstract: We report a case of Castleman's disease demonstrating 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) localization by whole-body PET imaging in a pelvic soft-tissue mass shown on abdominopelvic CT. In this case, there is mild FDG localization within pelvic Castleman's disease with standard uptake values lower than in many cases of low-grade and intermediate-grade lymphomas previously reported. FDG-PET may be of value as an imaging modality for differentiating Castleman's disease from lymphoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA.
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Nathan
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Karwal
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005871:Castleman Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003847:Deoxyglucose / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005462:Fluorine Radioisotopes; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010386:Pelvic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
chemical_list: D005462:Fluorine Radioisotopes; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D003847:Deoxyglucose