Incidental detection of thoracic sarcoidosis on whole-body 18fluorine-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography

MB Gotway, ML Storto, JA Golden… - Journal of thoracic …, 2000 - journals.lww.com
Abstract 18 Fluorine-2-Fluoro-2-Deoxy-D-Glucose positron emission tomography (18 FDG
PET) allows imaging of sites with increased metabolic activity. Increased metabolic activity in …

18F-FDG PET/CT in sarcoidosis management: review and report of 20 cases

JJ Braun, R Kessler, A Constantinesco… - European journal of …, 2008 - Springer
Purpose To evaluate the interest of 18 F-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose positron emission
tomography/computed tomography (18 F-FDG PET/CT) for diagnosis and therapeutic follow …

False-positive uptake of FDG in hepatic sarcoidosis

AN Guglielmi, BY Kim, B Bybel… - Clinical nuclear …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Positron emission tomography (PET), with the use of F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), has
been shown to be useful in the evaluation of many tumors as a result of its high sensitivity …

Early detection of cardiac sarcoid lesions with 18F-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography

H Ohira, I Tsujino, T Sato, K Yoshinaga, O Manabe… - Internal …, 2011 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Abstract In April 2005, a 72-year-old woman with pulmonary sarcoidosis exhibited focal 18F-
fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (18F-FDG) uptake in her heart on 18F-FDG positron emission …

Focal uptake on 18F-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography images indicates cardiac involvement of sarcoidosis

S Ishimaru, I Tsujino, T Takei, E Tsukamoto… - European heart …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Aims To evaluate the value of 18F-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography
(18F-FDG PET) in detecting cardiac sarcoidosis. Methods and results Thirty-two patients …

Diagnostic Usefulness of Fluorine–18-α–Methyltyrosine Positron Emission Tomography in Combination With 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose in Sarcoidosis Patients

K Kaira, N Oriuchi, Y Otani, N Yanagitani, N Sunaga… - Chest, 2007 - Elsevier
Objectives L-[3-18 F]-α–methyltyrosine (18 F-FMT) is an amino-acid tracer for positron
emission tomography (PET) and is used for tumor detection because malignant tumor cells …

Results of 188 whole-body fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography scans in 137 patients with sarcoidosis

AS Teirstein, J Machac, O Almeida, P Lu, ML Padilla… - Chest, 2007 - Elsevier
Background To study the role of whole-body 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron
emission tomography (PET) scans in the identification of occult biopsy sites and reversible …

Use of integrated FDG-PET/CT in sarcoidosis

S Krüger, AK Buck, FM Mottaghy, S Pauls, H Schelzig… - Clinical imaging, 2008 - Elsevier
We studied five patients with mediastinal lymph node enlargement suggestive of malignant
lymphoma, lung cancer, or sarcoidosis. Integrated [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron …

Incidental detection and monitoring of spontaneous recovery of sarcoidosis via fluorine-18-fluoroethyl-choline positron emission tomography/computed tomography.

M Takesh, U Haberkorn, LG Strauss… - Hellenic Journal of …, 2012 - europepmc.org
We report a case of sarcoidosis detected incidentally by using fluorine-18-fluoroethylcholine-
positron emission tomography/computed tomography (¹⁸F-FECH-PET/CT) in a 72 years old …

[HTML][HTML] 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the diagnosis of benign pulmonary lesions in sarcoidosis

M Zhao, XF Xin, H Hu, XH Pan, TF Lv… - … lung cancer research, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Many benign pulmonary lesions, especially sarcoidosis, are metabolically
active and are indistinguishable from lung cancer using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron …