Pulmonary brucellosis on FDG PET/CT

Clin Nucl Med. 2014 Feb;39(2):222-3. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000000327.

Abstract

A 67-year-old man known with pulmonary nodule underwent FDG PET/CT scan for further evaluation. The images showed increased FDG activity in the pulmonary lesions and in the mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes without extrathoracic abnormality. Pulmonary brucellosis was subsequently diagnosed. The patient received anti-Brucella therapy and recovered promptly.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Brucellosis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Brucellosis / therapy
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
  • Humans
  • Lung Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
  • Lung Diseases / therapy
  • Male
  • Multimodal Imaging
  • Positron-Emission Tomography*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*

Substances

  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18