A "fat chance" it's malignant: lipoid pneumonia simulating lung cancer on PET scan

Thorax. 2007 May;62(5):464. doi: 10.1136/thx.2006.068296.

Authors

B D Fox¹, I Shechtman, D Shitrit, D Bendayan, M R Kramer

Affiliation

¹ Pulmonary Institute Beilinson Campus, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tiqva 49100, Israel.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Diagnosis, Differential
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
Humans
Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Male
Pneumonia, Lipid / diagnostic imaging*
Positron-Emission Tomography
Radiopharmaceuticals*

Substances

Radiopharmaceuticals
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18