A case of septic pulmonary embolism associated with renal abscess mimicking pulmonary metastases of renal malignancy
- Authors
- Jung, Jo Sung; Lee, Sang Mi; Kim, Han Jo; Jang, Si-Hyong; Lee, Jeong Won
- Issue Date
- May-2014
- Publisher
- Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine/Nihon Kaku Igakkai
- Keywords
- F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose; PET; Septic pulmonary embolism; Renal abscess
- Citation
- Annals of Nuclear Medicine, v.28, no.4, pp 381 - 385
- Pages
- 5
- Journal Title
- Annals of Nuclear Medicine
- Volume
- 28
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 381
- End Page
- 385
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/sch/handle/2021.sw.sch/12228
- DOI
- 10.1007/s12149-014-0811-3
- ISSN
- 0914-7187
1864-6433
- Abstract
- We report the case of a 46-year-old woman with acute febrile symptom who had multiple pulmonary nodules and a renal mass. She underwent F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) to find a hidden malignancy and the cause of her fever. FDG PET/CT images demonstrated a renal mass and multiple lung nodules with intense FDG uptake, which was suspicious of a renal malignancy with multiple pulmonary metastatic lesions. CT-guided biopsies of the pulmonary and renal lesions only showed chronic inflammatory infiltrates without evidence of malignancy. She was diagnosed with septic pulmonary embolism from a renal abscess. One month after antibiotic treatment, the follow-up chest and abdomen CT showed improvement of the lung and renal lesions. This is the first case demonstrating the FDG PET/CT finding of septic pulmonary embolism associated with renal abscess in the published literature.
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