Atypical Layering of FDG in Pleural Effusion

Eun Ji Han; Hyukjin Yoon; Woo Hee Choi

doi:10.1097/RLU.0000000000004972

Atypical Layering of FDG in Pleural Effusion

Clin Nucl Med. 2024 Feb 1;49(2):162-165. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000004972. Epub 2023 Nov 17.

Authors

Eun Ji Han¹, Hyukjin Yoon, Woo Hee Choi

Affiliation

¹ From the Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

PMID: 37976534
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000004972

Abstract

Radiopharmaceuticals can accumulate in malignant or nonmalignant pleural effusion on γ and PET imaging, and effusion shows a pattern of diffusely or focally increased activity. Herein, we report atypical layering of FDG in pleural effusion on PET/CT of 3 patients with metastatic gynecological cancer.

MeSH terms

Diagnosis, Differential
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Humans
Lung Neoplasms*
Pleural Effusion* / diagnostic imaging
Pleural Effusion, Malignant* / diagnostic imaging
Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography
Radiopharmaceuticals

Substances

Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Radiopharmaceuticals