title: Incarcerated inguinal hernia from metastatic pleural mesothelioma: PET/CT imaging.
abstract: PET/CT provides a comprehensive staging, post-therapeutic surveillance, and outcome prognosis of malignant pleural mesothelioma based on its hypermetabolic behavior. This ability of PET may allow the monitoring, prediction, and detection of uncommon distant gastrointestinal clinical manifestations of this disease. The authors present a case of PET/CT imaging of pleural mesothelioma disseminating to the abdomen and pelvis, inducing an incarcerated inguinal hernia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ 85259, USA. nguyen.ba@mayo.edu
authors.forename: Vien X
authors.initials: VX
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Ba D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Panol C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Ram
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Roarke
mesh_terms: D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008654:Mesothelioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000556:secondary*; D008875:Middle Aged; D064847:Multimodal Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000556:secondary*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed