title: Imaging of Scrub Typhus by PET/CT.
abstract: A 19-year-old man had an unexplained fever, dizziness, headache, fatigue, and pain in the scrotum. An FDG PET/CT imaging was acquired to assess fever of unknown origin. The images showed multiple foci of increased FDG activity in the enlarged lymph nodes in the body. In addition, mildly increased activity in the enlarged spleen and lung bases was also noted. The patient was eventually diagnosed with scrub typhus based on positive results of the Weil-Felix agglutination test, eschar in the scrotum, and effective therapy.
authors.affiliation: From the *Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; and †Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cancer Hospital, Shanghai Fu Dan University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lv
authors.forename: Shuai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Huijun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ju
authors.forename: Yifan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D012612:Scrub Typhus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18