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Akshat Saxena1,2, Jonathon B Ryan1,2, Peter Grant1,2
1Discipline of Surgery, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia.
Abstract:
There is a wide range of differential diagnoses for paravertebral masses due to complex regional anatomy of the region. Positron emission tomography can help distinguish between benign and malignant lesions; malignant lesions usually have higher 18F fluorodeoxyglucose uptake. We report the case of a 70-year-old woman with a rare benign fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography avid lesion: mediastinal hibernoma.
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