Giant benign solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura: PET/CT findings.
A chest radiograph revealed a large left lower hemithorax mass in a 48-year-old nonsmoker woman with chronic cough and dyspnea. Whole-body contrast-enhanced PET/CT confirmed a large mass with relatively uniform mild FDG uptake (standardized uptake value=1.8). No signs of infiltration, pleural effusion, significant regional lymph nodes, or extrathoracic lesions were seen. A presumptive diagnosis of a probable benign solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura (SFTP) was considered. SFTP was confirmed at surgery. Few reported cases have described the PET/CT findings of SFTPs.
Department of Radiology, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain. luisgorospe@yahoo.com
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D054363:Solitary Fibrous Tumor, Pleural / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed