Open AccessReport of two cases of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography appearance of hibernoma: A rare benign tumor
Author(s) -
Archi Agrawal,
Seema Kembhavi,
Nilendu Purandare,
Sneha Shah,
Venkatesh Rangarajan
Publication year - 2014
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 - 10.4103/0972-3919.125773
Subject(s) - medicine , positron emission tomography , computed tomography , fluorodeoxyglucose , positron emission tomography computed tomography , positron emission , brown adipose tissue , radiology , nuclear medicine , adipose tissue
False-positive findings are commonly seen in positron emission tomography computed tomography imaging. One of the most common false positive finding is uptake of fluorodeoxyglucose in brown adipose tissue. Herein, we report two cases with incidentally detected hibernomas-a brown fat containing tumor with metabolic activity.