Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
Gewählte Publikation:
Wolf, G; Aigner, RM; Schwarz, T.
Pathologic uptake in F-18 FDG positron emission tomography of the residuals of a surgically removed needle abscess.
Clin Nucl Med. 2002; 27(6):439-440
Doi: 10.1097/00003072-200206000-00012
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- Aigner Reingard
- Schwarz Thomas
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- Abstract:
- Whole-body fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) in a 66-year-old woman showed extraosseous pathologic tracer uptake in the right gluteus medius and maximus muscles. Seven weeks before the examination, she underwent surgery because of a needle abscess at that spot. She felt no pain there, so she did not tell her physicians until she was asked for a possible reason for the tracer uptake in that area on the PET images. This case illustrates the extent of muscular tracer uptake after surgery. A radionuclide angiogram, blood-pool image, and delayed skeletal image did not show any pathologic results. PET might be a new method for the diagnosis and evaluation of a needle abscess or for its follow-up.
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- Abscess - etiology Abscess - surgery
- Aged -
- Buttocks - radionuclide imaging Buttocks - surgery
- Female -
- Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 - diagnostic use Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 - pharmacokinetics
- Humans -
- Muscle, Skeletal - metabolism Muscle, Skeletal - radionuclide imaging Muscle, Skeletal - surgery
- Myositis - etiology Myositis - surgery
- Needles - adverse effects
- Postoperative Period -
- Radiopharmaceuticals - diagnostic use Radiopharmaceuticals - pharmacokinetics
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- bone scan
- extraosseous uptake
- fluorodeoxyglucose
- muscle uptake
- positron emission tomography