FDG imaging of a pulmonary artery sarcoma

Ann Thorac Surg. 2000 Oct;70(4):1414-5. doi: 10.1016/s0003-4975(00)01963-9.

Abstract

Fluorine-18-2-fluro-2-deoxy-D-glucose-positron emission tomographic tumor imaging was employed to aid in the diagnosis of a patient with a right hilar mass. Based on preoperative imaging and intraoperative findings, a right pneumonectomy was performed for what proved to be a pulmonary artery sarcoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
  • Humans
  • Leiomyosarcoma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Leiomyosarcoma / pathology
  • Leiomyosarcoma / surgery
  • Middle Aged
  • Pneumonectomy
  • Pulmonary Artery / diagnostic imaging*
  • Pulmonary Artery / pathology
  • Pulmonary Artery / surgery
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed*
  • Vascular Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Vascular Neoplasms / pathology
  • Vascular Neoplasms / surgery

Substances

  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18