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Zehra Pınar Koç1, Pınar Pelin Özcan1, Kenan Turgutalp2
1Mersin University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Mersin, Turkey
Abstract:
A 23-year-old male patient who presented with impaired kidney function tests attended to hospital for hemodialysis and underwent 18F-FDG positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) examination for the metabolic characterization of the intra-abdominal mass which was found in the ultrasonography. 18F-FDG PET/CT revealed a mass lesion adjacent to the liver which was hypermetabolic and the pathology of the lesion was determined as amyloidosis. To the best of our knowledge, the case with 18F-FDG PET/CT images of a huge amyloid mass is the first in the literature.
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