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  • Title: [Iatrogenic lung microembolism detected by 18FDG PET/CT].
    Author: Coronado Poggio M, Couto Caro RM, Lillo García ME, Frutos Esteban L, Marín Ferrer MD, Martín Curto LM.
    Journal: Rev Esp Med Nucl; 2006 Sep; 25(5):312-5. PubMed ID: 17173777.
    Abstract:
    We present the cases of two oncology patients: a male with Hodgkin's disease after completion of chemotherapy, and a woman recently diagnosed of melanoma, who underwent positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) with 18F-FDG for therapeutic monitoring and initial staging, respectively. In both cases, hypermetabolic foci of 18F-FDG in lung parenchyma were found, without morphologic abnormalities in CT. These findings would have been consistent with lung pathology in the absence of any anatomic correlation. Combined PET/CT interpretation was of lung microembolisms probably originated at the injection site.
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