Open AccessIntense focal Fluoro-deoxyglucose uptake in the lungs with no corresponding computed tomography abnormality
Author(s) -
Ameya Puranik,
Sumeet Dua,
Nilendu Purandare,
Venkatesh Rangarajan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/0970-2113.106178
Subject(s) - abnormality , medicine , deoxyglucose , parenchyma , computed tomography , positron emission tomography computed tomography , radiology , lung , nuclear medicine , pathology , psychiatry
Scenario such as uptake of Fluoro-deoxyglucose (FDG) with no corresponding abnormality on computed tomography (CT) is encountered in case of brown fat uptake. However, it is rarely encountered in the lung parenchyma. We report one such case of a focal FDG uptake in the lung parenchyma with no corresponding CT abnormality, in a treated case of hypopharyngeal cancer.