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  • Title: Unusual Presentation of Elastofibroma Dorsi on 18F-FDG-PET/CT: A Case Report.
    Author: Martin SP, Gariani J, Tabouret Viaud C.
    Journal: Medicine (Baltimore); 2016 Feb; 95(7):e2832. PubMed ID: 26886641.
    Abstract:
    A 70-year-old male patient underwent an Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography-computed tomography for staging of a left parahilar lung neoplasm found during work-up for fatigue and asthenia. The scan demonstrated a hypermetabolic lung tumor, a hypermetabolic pleural effusion and 4 hypermetabolic bilateral soft tissue lesions of the chest wall corresponding to 4 elastofibroma dorsi. Initially, the oncologic disease was classified as stage IV because of the hypermetabolic pleural effusion. A transbronchial biopsy showed squamous cell carcinoma and the cytology of the pleural effusion revealed no malignant cells. As the other 4 hypermetabolic thoracic wall lesions were correctly diagnosed as benign despite their unusual presentation, the patient underwent surgery by left pneumonectomy and mediastinal lymphadenectomy. The lymph node involvement required adjuvant chemotherapy. Diagnostic confidence of the benignity of the hypermetabolic chest wall lesions allowed a more aggressive treatment with a better outcome after a malignant pleural effusion was excluded.
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