title: Intestinal pork tapeworm disease mimicking lymphoma on PET/CT imaging.
abstract: A 17-year-old girl with abdominal pain for 3 months underwent 18F-FDG PET to evaluate possible malignancy due to unexplained ascites detected by ultrasound. The images demonstrated multiple foci of abnormally increased 18F-FDG activity in the lymphadenopathy from the neck to the abdomen and in the thickened intestinal wall. In addition, abnormal activity was noted in the pharynx and skeletons. Cysticercosis was confirmed pathologically.
authors.affiliation: From the Departments of *Nuclear Medicine and †General Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Hanxing
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tong
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Hongcheng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000818:Animals; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007579:Jejunal Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008206:Lymphatic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D041201:Taenia solium; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed