title: Increased 18F-FDG Uptake in Multiple Muscles in a Patient With Violent Cough.
abstract: Increased muscular FDG uptake could be due to various causes. Detailed analysis combined with history might be helpful for image interpretation. We present FDG PET/CT findings of a 69-year-old woman with lung cancer. The images demonstrated intense FDG uptake in multiple muscles, likely due to cough before the PET/CT study. To relieve the patient's cough, codeine was administrated. The second F-FDG PET/CT was performed 2 days later. The images showed that the abnormal muscular activity had become decreased, which was slightly lower than hepatic activity.
authors.affiliation: From the Departments of *Nuclear Medicine, and †Respiratory, The Affiliated Hospital, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China.
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Fuqiang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Shao
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiufang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Yue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001692:Biological Transport; D003371:Cough / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D009132:Muscles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism*; D000072078:Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18