The appearance of pulmonary mucormycosis on FDG PET/CT.
Pulmonary mucormycosis is a life-threatening opportunistic mycosis that is difficult to diagnose early. We report the case of a 56-year-old woman who complained of intermittent fever in the afternoon and productive cough and pain on the right side of the chest. Her clinical condition deteriorated despite antibiotherapy. FDG PET/CT showed a heterogeneous soft tissue mass at the lower part of the right lung with obvious FDG uptake in the peripheral part of the mass. Mucormycosis was proven by histopathology and fungal culture from the transbronchial lung biopsy materials.
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tangshan Municipal Worker's Hospital, Tangshan, Hebei Province, China.
Chun-Jiang
CJ
Dang
Ya-Jun
YJ
Li
Feng-Hua
FH
Zhan
Xiao-Ming
XM
Shang
D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18