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  • Inventi:ebmi/14152/14
    The More You Look, the More You Find: Challenging Results on FDG-PET CT in a Patient with\nNeurofibromatosis Type I
    01-Jan-1970 Research 2014 : October - December
    Patrick Schoffski, Christophe M Deroose, Olivier Gheysens, Nele Lips, Koen Slabbaert, Ben Vancleynenbreugel, Philippe Moerman, Willy E Peetermans

    Background: FDG-PET/CT is part of the standard diagnostic management of a patients with a large variety of\ncommon and less common malignant tumors, based on the increased glucose metabolism within tumors.\nCase presentation: A hybrid fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography and computed tomography\n(FDG-PET/CT) was performed in a neurofibromatosis patient to rule out relapse of malignant peripheral nerve sheet\ntumor. The scan revealed non-malignant neurofibromas, a testis seminoma and hypermetabolic syphilitic granulomata.\nConclusion: This case stresses the need to rule out infectious diseases when atypical hypermetabolic lesions are present.

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    CC Compliant Citation: Schöffski et al.: The more you look, the more you find: challenging results on FDG-PET CT in a patient with neurofibromatosis type I. BMC Medical Imaging 2014 14:19, doi:10.1186/1471-2342-14-19. © 2014 Patrick et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. \nThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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