18F-FDG imaging of a rare cutaneous infection by Mycobacterium avium complex.
A 17-year-old male patient was admitted into our hospital with granulomatous eruption (primarily on the lower extremities), diarrhea, fever, and weight loss for 6 months. F-FDG PET/CT scan was performed to rule out the possibility of malignant metastasis or paraneoplastic syndromes. F-FDG PET/CT scan showed multiple bone and skin lesions with significantly intense FDG uptakes and lymph nodes with moderate FDG uptake. A biopsy of the skin lesions was performed, and the tissue was sent for a broad-range polymerase chain reaction amplification, which showed that the pathogenic organism was Mycobacterium avium complex.
From the PET Center of Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Zhemin
Z
Huang
Chun
C
Qiu
Yihui
Y
Guan
D000293:Adolescent; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D015269:Mycobacterium avium Complex / Q000502:physiology*; D015270:Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000382:microbiology*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D012867:Skin / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D051598:Whole Body Imaging
D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18