A case of diffuse hepatic angiosarcoma diagnosed by FDG-PET.
A 76-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a 2-month history of increasing abdominal distension, leg edema, and dyspnea. The serum transaminase level was about twice the upper limit of normal. The CT showed no tumor. Fluorine-18 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-D-glucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET) showed diffuse abnormal accumulation throughout the entire liver. She was diagnosed by histopathological examination as having hepatic angiosarcoma causing veno-occlusive disease (VOD). This is the first report of hepatic angiosarcoma with FDG-PET.
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Department of Nuclear Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, 1-4-3 Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan. oeai@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp
Habu
Daiki
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Kawabe
Joji
J
Torii
Kenji
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Kawamura
Etsushi
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Kotani
Jin
J
Hayashi
Takehiro
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Sakaguchi
Hiroki
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Shiomi
Susumu
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D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006504:Hepatic Veno-Occlusive Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000379:methods; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals
D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18