title: Retroperitoneal fibrosis as a cause of positive FDG PET/CT.
abstract: This article educates the reader on idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis and emphasizes the importance of considering conditions that mimic this disease on PET/CT through an illustrative case of a 58 year-old man presenting with intermittent abdominal, back, and scrotal pain undergoing successive PET/CT scans, both for diagnosis and following treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Amar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mehta
authors.forename: Todd M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Blodgett
mesh_terms: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D012185:Retroperitoneal Fibrosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18