Solitary necrotic nodule with larval infestation in the liver on F-18 FDG PET/CT.
We present the case of a 64-year-old woman who suffered from occasional right upper abdominal pain for several months. Both abdominal ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging showed a hepatic mass of indeterminate nature. F-18 FDG PET/CT showed a solitary hypermetabolic mass in the liver; a malignancy was therefore suspected. Her hepatic tumor was resected; it was a solitary necrotic nodule with larval infestation but no evidence of malignancy.
Chen
Chao-Jung
CJ
Nuclear Medicine, Yuan's General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. chenchaojung1975@yahoo.com.tw
Chou
Shih-Cheng
SC
Chen
His-Jung
HJ
Chen
Hong-Yaw
HY
D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D007814:Larva / Q000502:physiology*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology*; D009336:Necrosis; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18