Atypical gouty mediastinal tophus mimicking thymoma on ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT

Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2019 Nov;46(12):2623-2624. doi: 10.1007/s00259-019-04469-3. Epub 2019 Aug 15.

Authors

Kevin Prigent^{1

2}, Bastien Jean-Jacques³, Maxime Heyndrickx⁴, Jean Jacques Michels³, Nicolas Aide⁵

Affiliations

¹ Service de Médecine Nucléaire, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Avenue de la Côte de Nacre, 14033, Caen cedex 9, France. [email protected].
² Nuclear Medicine Department, CHU de Caen, Caen, France. [email protected].
³ Pathology Department, CHU de Caen, Caen, France.
⁴ Thoracic Surgery Departement, CHU de Caen, Caen, France.
⁵ Service de Médecine Nucléaire, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Avenue de la Côte de Nacre, 14033, Caen cedex 9, France.

PMID: 31418055
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-019-04469-3

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Diagnosis, Differential
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
Gout / diagnostic imaging*
Humans
Male
Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*
Thymoma / diagnostic imaging*
Thymus Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*

Substances

Fluorodeoxyglucose F18