Occult Renal Granulomatous Inflammatory Lesions in Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis Detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT

Clin Nucl Med. 2017 Sep;42(9):707-708. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001746.

Abstract

A 33-year-old woman with a 7-month history of granulomatosis with polyangiitis F-FDG PET/CT scan due to low-grade intermittent fever and elevation of serum inflammatory markers, which revealed multiple hypermetabolic lesions in bilateral kidneys. Biopsy of a lesion showed granulomatosis with polyangiitis, consistent with renal involvement of granulomatosis with polyangiitis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Biomarkers / blood
  • Female
  • Fever / complications
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
  • Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis / blood
  • Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis / complications
  • Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Inflammation / blood
  • Kidney Diseases / blood
  • Kidney Diseases / complications
  • Kidney Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*

Substances

  • Biomarkers
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18