Fluorrine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography of adult liver Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
OBJECTIVE
Adult liver Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is an extremely rare desease. This paper reports a 40 years old male patient who was diagnosed as liver LCH though ultrasound-guided liver biopsy. The initial Fluorrine-18- fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/ computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) showed multiple nodular low-density lesions in liver without obvious elevated18F-FDG uptake. Four years later, the follow-up18F-FDG PET/CT showed the liver multiple lesions with slightly elevated18F-FDG uptake.


CONCLUSIONS
We describe this case, to highlight the importance of18F-FDG PET/CT in differential diagnosis for the primary disease and the multiple liver nodules.
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Medical school of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province,210002, China. zh_zy@163.com.
Hengshan
H
Ji
Jiang
J
Wu
Guifen
G
Yang
Chuanjin
C
Sun
Hong
H
Zhu
Longjiang
L
Zhang
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006646:Histiocytosis, Langerhans-Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D000072078:Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography / Q000379:methods*; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals
D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18