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High 18F-fluorothymidine uptake for invasive thymoma
- Source :
- Clinical nuclear medicine. 37(10)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- We report an invasive thymoma discovered incidentally by an 18F-FLT (fluorothymidine) PET study on a 48-year-old woman. The patient had equivocal breast lesions in her bilateral breasts. She entered a clinical 18F-FLT PET trial in our hospital to differentiate malignant breast tumors from benign ones. No 18F FLT-avid lesions in her breasts were revealed. But an intense 18F-FLT uptake lesion was noted in her right anterior mediastinum. However, an F-FDG PET scan showed only mild F-FDG uptake in the lesion. Video-assisted thoracic surgery thymectomy was subsequently performed, and the final pathology showed invasive thymoma.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Thymoma
medicine.medical_treatment
Lesion
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Neoplasm Invasiveness
business.industry
Mediastinum
Biological Transport
General Medicine
Thymus Neoplasms
Invasive thymoma
Middle Aged
Dideoxynucleosides
Bilateral breasts
Thymectomy
18f fluorothymidine
medicine.anatomical_structure
Cardiothoracic surgery
Positron-Emission Tomography
cardiovascular system
Female
Radiology
medicine.symptom
business
Right anterior
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15360229
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical nuclear medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9e2a234b0fa6149c78c94e03e5d25db3