title: PET/CT demonstration and monitoring of thoracic and abdominal wall mesothelioma.
abstract: Mesothelioma is a malignancy arising from the embryonic coelomic mesodermal lining forming the pleura, peritoneum, pericardium, and tunica vaginalis. It is mostly induced by exposure to asbestos. The author presents a 77-year-old woman with an atypical manifestation of epithelioid mesothelioma, which does not follow the expected clinical characteristics of this disease mentioned above. In this case, PET/CT provides useful information concerning the extension of the lesions to thoracic and abdominal walls not fully evaluated by the initial conventional cross-sectional imaging. PET/CT also allows an accurate therapeutic monitoring of the disease.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona.
authors.forename: Ba D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Nguyen
mesh_terms: D034861:Abdominal Wall / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008654:Mesothelioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000086002:Mesothelioma, Malignant; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed