Open AccessRetroperitoneal fibrosis masquerading as para-aortic lymphadenopathy on F-18 FDG PET/CT in a patient with carcinoma cervix
Author(s) -
Raghava Kashyap,
BR Mittal,
Sunita Kumari,
Anish Bhattacharya,
Baljinder Singh
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
world journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1607-3312
pISSN - 1450-1147
DOI - 10.4103/1450-1147.82113
Subject(s) - medicine , retroperitoneal fibrosis , fibrosis , radiology , cervix , lesion , carcinoma , pathology , cancer
We present a case of carcinoma cervix found to have a soft tissue lesion in retroperitoneal region with intense FDG uptake. However, this FDG uptake was false positive as the final diagnosis was retroperitoneal fibrosis.