Uptake of fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose in pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex infection.
Two patients showing abnormal fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake due to Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection are presented. Intense focal FDG uptake in the lung field could have been caused by an infectious disease such as MAC. This should be considered as a possibility when FDG whole-body scans of patients with pulmonary nodules are interpreted. To our knowledge, this is the first description of an FDG-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) image of MAC infection of the lung.
Bandoh
Shuji
S
First Department of Internal Medicine, Kagawa Medical University, Kagawa.
Fujita
Jiro
J
Ueda
Yutaka
Y
Tojo
Yasunori
Y
Ishii
Tomoya
T
Kubo
Akihito
A
Yamamoto
Yuka
Y
Nishiyama
Yoshihiro
Y
Ishida
Toshihiko
T
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D015270:Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000379:methods
D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18