Diagnosis of an unusual case of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis by 18F-FDG PET/CT

Roberto G. Carbone, MD; Giuseppe Murdaca, MD, PhD; Simone Negrini, MD, PhD; Daniele Penna, MD; Francesco Puppo, MD

Radiology Case Reports (Apr 2020)

Diagnosis of an unusual case of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis by 18F-FDG PET/CT

Roberto G. Carbone, MD,
Giuseppe Murdaca, MD, PhD,
Simone Negrini, MD, PhD,
Daniele Penna, MD,
Francesco Puppo, MD

Affiliations

Roberto G. Carbone, MD: Department on Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Giuseppe Murdaca, MD, PhD: Department on Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Simone Negrini, MD, PhD: Department on Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Daniele Penna, MD: Affidea IRMET, Turin, Italy
Francesco Puppo, MD: Department on Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy; Corresponding author.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 15, no. 4
pp. 435 – 436

Abstract

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Diagnosis of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis was done by exclusion in a 54-year-old woman with dyspnoea, chest pain, cough and fatigue showing positivity of 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography total body imaging which turned out to normal after six and eighteen months of prednisone and pirfernidone treatment. Keywords: Positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), Idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis

Published in Radiology Case Reports

ISSN: 1930-0433 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General): Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine
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