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Takeshi Saraya1, Takuma Yokoyama, Haruyuki Ishii, Yasutaka Tanaka, Naoki Tsujimoto, Yukari Ogawa, Erei Sohara, Akira Nakajima, Toshiya Inui, Hiraoka Sayuki, Masachika Fujiwara, Teruaki Oka, Riken Kawachi, Tomoyuki Goya, Hajime Takizawa, Hajime Goto.
Abstract
A 47-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of a 2-month history of dry cough, 2-kg weight loss, and a feeling of abdominal fullness. The PET-CT scan depicts the intense standard uptake values (SUVs) of the anterior and subphrenic lymphnodes, and intraperitoneal cavity, especially in the omentum, while, no uptake was found in the pleural cavity. Based on the pathological findings of the open lung biopsy specimens, he was diagnosed with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma of epithelioid type with thoracic metastasis. The present case demonstrated the some of the limitations of PET-CT in the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma, which failed to detect pleural involvement despite aggressive invasion by this tumor.Entities:
Keywords: Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma; fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) computed tomography; open lung biopsy; thoracic metastasis
Year: 2013 PMID： 23372960 PMCID： PMC3547994 DOI： 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2012.08.19
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Thorac Dis ISSN： 2072-1439 Impact factor: 2.895