title: 18F-FDG PET/CT findings in a patient with Sweet syndrome associated with myelodysplastic syndrome.
abstract: A 73-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of a 2-year history of repeated painful edematous erythemas on the skin and pancytopenia for the last 8 months. FDG PET/CT demonstrated multiple cutaneous foci with increased tracer accumulation throughout the body, multiple FDG-avid lymph nodes in the mediastinum, bilateral pulmonary hili and abdomen, and diffusively increased FDG uptake of bone marrow. A skin biopsy revealed infiltration by neutrophilic granulocytes consistent with Sweet syndrome. Myelodysplastic syndrome was established on bone marrow aspiration and biopsy.
authors.affiliation: From the *Department of Nuclear Medicine, †Department of Pathology and ‡Department of Hematology, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Aisheng
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Changjing
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zuo
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D009190:Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D016463:Sweet Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18