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Table 1 Patients’ FDG PET/CT findings and the other clinical information

From: False positive finding from malignancy-like lesions on FDG PET/CT: case report of tuberculosis patients

Patient

Age (years old)

Sex

FDG PET/CT findings

Other clinical findings

1

47

M

• Multiple hypermetabolic lymphadenopathies at neck and right nasopharyngeal wall.

• Mild hypermetabolic ground glass opacity with thick cavitation, calcification at the apical of the left lung

• History of nasopharyngeal cancer

• Normal blood test and serum CEA level within normal limit

• Contrast CT scan of head and neck: no sign of relapse in the nasopharyngeal wall

• Multiple lymphadenopathies at neck

2

58

F

• Multiple hypermetabolic lesion at the left superior bronchus wall

• Mild hypermetabolic bronchial thickening at posterior part of left superior lobe

• Multiple hypermetabolic lymphadenopathies at neck, mediastinum, abdominal and pelvic area.

• Hypermetabolic lytic lesion at fourth lumbar

• Hypermetabolic nodule at right parietooccipital region.

• History of dizziness for four months

• Multiple nodules on brain CT

  1. FDG fluorodeoxyglucose, CEA Carcinoembryonic antigen