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Sclerosing mediastinitis: findings on fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography
M B Imran1, K Kubota, S Yoshioka
1Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. imran@idac.tohoku.ac.jp
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|May 8, 1999
Abstract:
Whole-body serial positron emission tomography scanning was done using fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F-18 FDG) in a patient with a mediastinal mass. Uptake correlated well with the clinical symptoms and aggressiveness of the disease. Based on the F-18 FDG findings, a biopsy specimen was taken from the active region of the mass, which confirmed the diagnosis of sclerosing mediastinitis.