title: Incidental finding of silent appendicitis on (18)F-FDG PET/CT in a patient with small cell lung adenocarcinoma.
abstract: We report the incidental diagnosis of acute asymptomatic appendicitis on a fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography with computed tomography ((18)F-FDG PET/CT) performed for staging of a non small cell lung carcinoma. The patient was asymptomatic and laboratory tests were normal. The case illustrates: a) the possibility to diagnose appendicitis on (18)F-FDG PET/CT and b) the possibility of silent acute appendicitis, although this is a rare occurrence.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Algemeen Ziekenhuis, Sint-Jan Brugge-Oostende, Ruddershove 10, B-8000 Brugge, Belgium. frank.degeeter@azsintjan.be.
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bourgeois
authors.forename: Ivo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Van Den Berghe
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: De Geeter
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications*; D000077192:Adenocarcinoma of Lung; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D055752:Small Cell Lung Carcinoma / Q000150:complications*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18