Epithelioid granuloma mimicking lung cancer showed intense uptake on [18F]FAPI-74 PET

Epithelioid granuloma mimicking lung cancer showed intense uptake on [¹⁸F]FAPI-74 PET

Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2024 Feb;51(3):930-931. doi: 10.1007/s00259-023-06478-9. Epub 2023 Oct 28.

Tadashi Watabe^{1

2}, Ivan Ray David^{3

4}, Toru Kimura⁵, Takashi Hiroshima⁵, Mitsuaki Tatsumi^{6

7}, Sadahiro Naka⁸, Takashi Kamiya⁷, Eriko Fukui⁵, Takashi Kanou⁵, Naoko Ose⁵, Soichiro Funaki⁵, Yuriko Mori⁹, Jens Cardinale⁹, Hiroki Kato^{3

6}, Eiichi Morii¹⁰, Yasushi Shintani⁵, Frederik L Giesel^{6

9}

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine and Tracer Kinetics, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan. watabe.tadashi.med@osaka-u.ac.jp.
² Institute for Radiation Sciences, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan. watabe.tadashi.med@osaka-u.ac.jp.
³ Department of Nuclear Medicine and Tracer Kinetics, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.
⁴ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center, Manila, Philippines.
⁵ Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
⁶ Institute for Radiation Sciences, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan.
⁷ Department of Radiology, Osaka University Hospital, Suita, Japan.
⁸ Department of Pharmacy, Osaka University Hospital, Suita, Japan.
⁹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Duesseldorf, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.
¹⁰ Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.

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