OBJECTIVE: Incidental (18)F-FDG-avid breast lesions are commonly encountered in patients with cancer who undergo staging PET/CT. This pictorial essay discusses breast lesions that show increased FDG activity, mimicking breast cancer, with biopsy-confirmed benign diagnosis. CONCLUSION: Acute and chronic inflammation, physiologic lactation, and benign breast masses, including silicone granuloma, fat necrosis, fibroadenoma, and postsurgical changes, may show increased FDG uptake on PET/CT. These conditions can often be differentiated from malignancy by correlative imaging, including mammography, sonography, or MRI.
OBJECTIVE: Incidental (18)F-FDG-avid breast lesions are commonly encountered in patients with cancer who undergo staging PET/CT. This pictorial essay discusses breast lesions that show increased FDG activity, mimicking breast cancer, with biopsy-confirmed benign diagnosis. CONCLUSION: Acute and chronic inflammation, physiologic lactation, and benign breast masses, including siliconegranuloma, fat necrosis, fibroadenoma, and postsurgical changes, may show increased FDG uptake on PET/CT. These conditions can often be differentiated from malignancy by correlative imaging, including mammography, sonography, or MRI.
Authors: Raghava Kashyap; Eddie Lau; Anupkumar George; John F Seymour; Stephen Lade; Rodney J Hicks; Michael S Hofman Journal: Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Date: 2013-05-08 Impact factor: 9.236
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Authors: Aaron M LeBeau; Sai Duriseti; Stephanie T Murphy; Francois Pepin; Byron Hann; Joe W Gray; Henry F VanBrocklin; Charles S Craik Journal: Cancer Res Date: 2013-02-11 Impact factor: 12.701
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