title: Ocular sarcoidosis: does (18)F-FDG PET/CT have any role?
abstract: Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic disease, which may affect almost any organ including the eyes. Recently, F-FDG PET/CT has proved to be a very useful molecular imaging method allowing to obtain a complete morphofunctional cartography of active inflammatory sites and to assess treatment response in patients with sarcoidosis. We report 2 cases of sarcoidosis where F-FDG PET/CT showed intense FDG uptake in the eye globes along with multiple enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes suggestive of active sarcoidosis with ocular involvement.
authors.affiliation: From the Departments of *Nuclear Medicine & PET, and †Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Rayamajhi Sampanna
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Bhagwant Rai
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Mittal
authors.forename: Nagarjuna V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Maturu
authors.forename: Rajender
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Anish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
authors.forename: Dheeraj
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gupta
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005123:Eye / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18