Open AccessHepatic metastasis disguised as fat spared area in the background of fatty liver: Detection on FDG PET/CT
Author(s) -
Ameya Puranik,
Nilendu Purandare,
Archi Agrawal,
Sneha Shah,
Venkatesh Rangarajan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 0972-3919
pISSN - 0974-0244
DOI - 10.4103/0972-3919.118263
Subject(s) - medicine , positron emission tomography , radiology , fatty liver , metastasis , adenocarcinoma , computed tomography , nuclear medicine , fluorodeoxyglucose , pathology , cancer , disease
Area of fat sparing in fatty liver is known to pose a diagnostic challenge in an oncological setting, especially in cancers with higher propensity for liver metastases. We report an unusual appearance of hepatic metastases in a fat spared area, on both computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET), in a combined 18 fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose (18 F-FDG) PET/CT study done in metastatic adenocarcinoma of colon.