title: Multiple liver amoebic abscesses detected on FDG PET/CT.
abstract: We report a case of liver amoebic abscesses in a 58-year-old man referred for a FDG PET/CT with an initial diagnosis of secondary hepatic lesions. This patient, coming from Sri Lanka, presented with fever and shivers, pain in the right flank, vomiting, and diarrhea for a month. The FDG PET/CT showed a hepatic heterogeneous uptake with multiple cold lesions surrounded by a faint hypermetabolism. As this result was not typical of hepatic metastases, a hepatic biopsy was performed leading to the diagnosis of amoebic abscess.
authors: From the *Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hopital Prive d'Antony, Antony; and †Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, CH François Quesnay, Mantes-la-Jolie, France.
authors: Françoise Annie
authors: FA
authors: Cavailloles
authors: Agnes
authors: A
authors: Mure
authors: Hicham
authors: H
authors: Nasser
authors: Anne-Lise
authors: AL
authors: Lecapitaine
authors: Françoise
authors: F
authors: Granier
mesh_terms: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008101:Liver Abscess, Amebic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18