Incidental finding of F-18 FDG skin uptake in a patient with psoriasis during the evaluation of a recurrent papillary thyroid carcinoma.
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Date publication
janvier 2011
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr PAPATHANASSIOU Dimitri
Tous les auteurs :
Bruna-Muraille C, Pochart JM, Papathanassiou D, Guedec-Ghelfi R, Cuif-Job A, Liehn JC
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Résumé
We report the case of a patient, referred in our institution for a PET/CT for a suspected recurrence of papillary thyroid carcinoma. An intense cutaneous uptake of FDG was seen in the upper neck region. The clinical examination showed an indurate and thickened red descamative plaque evocative of psoriasis, and the patient reported a long history of psoriatic lesions of the skin, evolving for many years. This case illustrates an incidental finding which must be recognized, and not confounded with other causes of skin uptake. The FDG image is not surprising, as FDG uptake is expected in active inflammatory disease.
Référence
Clin Nucl Med. 2011 Jan;36(1):34-5.