Drinking Large Volume of Hot Water May Cause Increased 18F-FDG Uptake in Esophagus

Ziyu Guo; Ziqian Dong; Feilong Chen; Lingge Wei; Peng Xie

doi:10.1097/RLU.0000000000005170

Drinking Large Volume of Hot Water May Cause Increased 18F-FDG Uptake in Esophagus

Clin Nucl Med. 2024 Mar 18. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000005170. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Ziyu Guo¹, Ziqian Dong, Feilong Chen, Lingge Wei, Peng Xie

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Nuclear Medicine, The Third Hospital, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.

PMID: 38498663
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000005170

Abstract

We present 2 cases of diffuse FDG accumulation in the esophagus due to drinking hot water before an 18F-FDG PET/CT scan. Drinking large volume of hot water immediately before the FDG PET/CT study may lead to challenges in the interpretation of the hypermetabolic esophagus.