Subtly Increased Focal FDG Activity in the Liver Due to Paragonimiasis

Jiaona Dai; Haitao Wang; Hui Wang; Rong Tian

doi:10.1097/RLU.0000000000004736

Subtly Increased Focal FDG Activity in the Liver Due to Paragonimiasis

Clin Nucl Med. 2023 Aug 1;48(8):e407-e409. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000004736. Epub 2023 Jun 8.

Authors

Jiaona Dai¹, Haitao Wang, Hui Wang, Rong Tian

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

PMID: 37290448
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000004736

Abstract

A 32-year-old man underwent 18 F-FDG PET/CT to evaluate suspicious hepatic metastases, which were revealed by ultrasonography and MRI. The FDG PET/CT images demonstrated only one focus of subtly increased activity in the liver without abnormality elsewhere. The pathological result from hepatic biopsy was consistent with Paragonimus westermani infection.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Humans
Liver / diagnostic imaging
Liver / parasitology
Liver / physiology
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Paragonimiasis* / diagnostic imaging
Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography
Ultrasonography