01.02.2003 | Image of the Month
Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy on bone scintigraphy related to a mediastinal tumour of unknown origin imaged by FDG-PET
Erschienen in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Ausgabe 2/2003
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Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HPOA) was first described by Pierre-Marie Bamberger [1, 2] and is often associated with lung carcinoma. However, other intrathoracic tumours or non-malignant disease [3] may also occur in association with HPOA. In this patient, HPOA was related to a mediastinal tumour of unknown origin that was intensely avid for FDG. The FDG-PET study did not demonstrate any evidence for distant metastatic disease.×
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