False-positive PET scan in a patient with lipoid pneumonia simulating lung cancer

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 426-428

  Talwar, Arunabh ^a   Mayerhoff, Ross ^a   London, Darrin ^a   Shah, Rakesh ^a   Stanek, Albert ^a   Epstein, Marcia ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

False positive PET scan; Lipoid pneumonia; Mycobacterium chelonae; Nonmalignant pulmonary lesion

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; PNEUMONIA, LIPID; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 2942653224     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000129123.61966.e0     Document Type: Article

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