title: PET-positive fibrous dysplasia--a potentially misleading incidental finding in a patient with intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary artery.
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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Medical Radiology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland. klaus.strobel@usz.ch
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Strobel
authors.forename: Beata
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bode
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lardinois
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Exner
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003287:Contrast Media; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005357:Fibrous Dysplasia of Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D017539:Tunica Intima / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18