Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918
Uptake of Fluorine-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose in Pulmonary Mycobacterium avium Complex Infection
Shuji BANDOH, Jiro FUJITA, Yutaka UEDA, Yasunori TOJO, Tomoya ISHII, Akihito KUBO, Yuka YAMAMOTO, Yoshihiro NlSHIYAMA, Toshihiko ISHIDA
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Keywords: MAC, FDG-PET, non-tuberculous mycobacteria, pulmonary nodule, lung cancer, inflammation
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2003 Volume 42 Issue 8 Pages 726-729

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Abstract

Two patients showing abnormal fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake due to Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection are presented. Intense focal FDG uptake in the lung field could have been caused by an infectious disease such as MAC. This should be considered as a possibility when FDG whole-body scans of patients with pulmonary nodules are interpreted. To our knowledge, this is the first description of an FDG-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) image of MAC infection of the lung.
(Internal Medicine 42: 726-729, 2003)

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