TY - JOUR
T1 - Food residue granuloma mimicking metastatic disease on FDG-PET/CT
AU - Crucitti, Antonio
AU - Grossi, Ugo
AU - Leccisotti, Lucia
AU - Maggi, Fabio
AU - Ricci, Riccardo
AU - Mazzari, Andrea
AU - Tomaiuolo, Pasquina M. C.
AU - Giordano, Alessandro
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - A 31-year-old woman presenting with acute abdomen underwent an emergency Hartmann's procedure for fecal peritonitis due to perforated adenocarcinoma of the left colon. Shortly after a 7-month course of adjuvant chemotherapy, follow-up contrast-enhanced CT showed multiple peritoneal and hepatic nodules, showing focal intense and homogeneous FDG uptake on FDG-PET/CT, highly suspected for recurrence of disease. Excisional biopsy of the nodules revealed foreign body granulomas made up of alimentary materials surrounded by a fibrous wall. We report a unique case of a false-positive finding secondary to food residues mimicking metastatic disease on FDG-PET in a patient with colon cancer.
AB - A 31-year-old woman presenting with acute abdomen underwent an emergency Hartmann's procedure for fecal peritonitis due to perforated adenocarcinoma of the left colon. Shortly after a 7-month course of adjuvant chemotherapy, follow-up contrast-enhanced CT showed multiple peritoneal and hepatic nodules, showing focal intense and homogeneous FDG uptake on FDG-PET/CT, highly suspected for recurrence of disease. Excisional biopsy of the nodules revealed foreign body granulomas made up of alimentary materials surrounded by a fibrous wall. We report a unique case of a false-positive finding secondary to food residues mimicking metastatic disease on FDG-PET in a patient with colon cancer.
KW - PET
KW - metastatic
KW - PET
KW - metastatic
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/41971
U2 - 10.1007/s11604-013-0184-x
DO - 10.1007/s11604-013-0184-x
M3 - Article
SN - 1867-1071
SP - 1
EP - 5
JO - Japanese Journal of Radiology
JF - Japanese Journal of Radiology
ER -