A 79-Year-Old Man With Interstitial Lung Disease and Cryptic Area of High 18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake in Left Upper Lobe

Chest. 2015 Dec;148(6):e175-e180. doi: 10.1378/chest.14-2680.

Abstract

Seven years after left hemicolectomy and radical lymph nodal dissection followed by adjuvant chemotherapy for colorectal cancer (histotype, adenocarcinoma; stage, pT3N2M0; grading, G2), a slight increase in carcinoembryonic antigen levels (6.2 ng/mL; range, 0-5 ng/mL) was detected in a 79-year-old man. He was a heavy smoker with history of an interstitial fibrotic lung disease with associated areas of emphysema.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma* / pathology
  • Adenocarcinoma* / surgery
  • Aged
  • Carcinoembryonic Antigen / blood*
  • Colectomy / methods
  • Colorectal Neoplasms / complications*
  • Colorectal Neoplasms / pathology
  • Colorectal Neoplasms / surgery
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 / pharmacology*
  • Humans
  • Lung Diseases, Interstitial / complications*
  • Lung Neoplasms* / pathology
  • Lung Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Male
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / methods
  • Neoplasms, Second Primary* / pathology
  • Neoplasms, Second Primary* / surgery
  • Pneumonectomy / methods
  • Positron-Emission Tomography / methods
  • Radiopharmaceuticals / pharmacology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Carcinoembryonic Antigen
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18