Pancreatic tuberculosis: Evaluation of therapeutic response using F-18 fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography

Sampath Santhosh; Anish Bhattacharya; Surinder Singh Rana; Deepak Kumar Bhasin; Radhika Srinivasan; Bhagwant Rai Mittal

doi:10.4103/0972-3919.142635

Pancreatic tuberculosis: Evaluation of therapeutic response using F-18 fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography

Indian J Nucl Med. 2014 Oct;29(4):257-9. doi: 10.4103/0972-3919.142635.

Authors

Sampath Santhosh¹, Anish Bhattacharya¹, Surinder Singh Rana², Deepak Kumar Bhasin², Radhika Srinivasan³, Bhagwant Rai Mittal¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
² Department of Gastroenterology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
³ Department of Cytology and Gynaecological Pathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.

Abstract

F-18 fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) is a functional imaging technique that monitors glucose metabolism in tissues. Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) has been reported to show intense uptake of FDG, with a decrease in metabolism of the tuberculous lesions after successful anti-tubercular treatment (ATT). The authors present a patient with pancreatic TB and demonstrate the usefulness of FDG PET/CT in monitoring the response to ATT.

Keywords: F-18 fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose; pancreas; positron emission tomography/computed tomography; tuberculosis.

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Case Reports