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Daniel Levin1, Nir Hod1, Reut Anconina1
1From the Institutes of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, and.
Abstract:
A 20-year-old man with gastrointestinal symptoms and weight loss underwent FDG PET/CT, which revealed multiple hypermetabolic hepatic lesions concerning for metastatic liver disease. The outcome of liver biopsy was consistent with the diagnosis of peliosis hepatis which is a rare benign disease characterized by multiple blood-filled cystic spaces in the hepatic parenchyma. The findings of peliosis on FDG PET/CT are not well reported in the literature. These interesting images emphasize the importance of including peliosis hepatis in the differential diagnosis of multiple hypermetabolic hepatic lesions on FDG PET/CT, which could simulate malignancy.
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