Unusual positron emission tomography findings in pulmonary amyloidosis: a case report.
Positron emission tomography (PET) has come to play an increasingly important role in the evaluation of pulmonary lesions, which are suspicious of malignancy. As is true for other techniques, PET gives false positive and negative results. We report a case of pulmonary amyloidosis with multiple pulmonary nodules showing different uptake of 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) on PET. There are limitations of specificity of FDG-PET in characterising pulmonary nodules and it is important to confirm a suspected malignancy with histology before potentially curative treatment is undertaken.
Yadav
Sumit
S
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, WA (6160), Australia. s_yadava@rediffmail.com
Sharma
Sanjay
S
Gilfillan
Ian
I
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography