title: Classic biphasic pulmonary blastoma demonstrated by 18F-FDG PET/CT.
abstract: A 75-year-old nonsmoker woman was referred for the evaluation of a nonsecretory left adrenal lesion. An abdominal contrast-enhanced CT showed an incidental left lower lobe mass, which was confirmed on a chest contrast-enhanced CT. A 18F-FDG PET/CT showed a hypermetabolic tumor without nodal or distant metastasis. She underwent a lobectomy, and the final pathology reported a classic biphasic pulmonary blastoma, which is an uncommon histological form of malignant lung neoplasm. This case highlighted the glucose avidity of this rare and aggressive cancer.
authors.affiliation: From the *Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, and †Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA.
authors.forename: Khun Visith
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: Keu
authors.forename: Gerald J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Berry
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Quon
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D018202:Pulmonary Blastoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18