Pet scan: Findings in a patient with severe cutaneous and systemic sarcoidosis

A. Westers Attema; J.C.J.M. Veraart; C.D. de Pont; R.L. Mostard; S.A. Voo; M.J. van Kroonenburgh; M. Drent

doi:10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182291c51

Pet scan: Findings in a patient with severe cutaneous and systemic sarcoidosis

A. Westers Attema, J.C.J.M. Veraart, C.D. de Pont, R.L. Mostard, S.A. Voo, M.J. van Kroonenburgh, M. Drent^*

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Abstract

Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disease of unknown etiology characterized by the formation of noncaseating epithelioid-cell granulomas. We present a black female patient with severe cutaneous and systemic sarcoidosis. In the diagnostic work-up a F-18 FDG PET scan demonstrated the extensiveness of the disease. The scan was combined with a low-dose CT for attenuation correction and improvement of the localization of the identified abnormalities. The presented case showed that F-18 FDG PET scan is useful not only in the diagnostic work-up and the assessment of the extent of sarcoidosis activity but also in the follow-up.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1049-1050
Number of pages	2
Journal	Clinical Nuclear Medicine
Volume	36
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182291c51
Publication status	Published - Nov 2011

Keywords

skin lesions
sarcoidosis
F-18 FDG PET scanning
diagnosis
follow-up
inflammation
POSITRON-EMISSION-TOMOGRAPHY
DIAGNOSIS

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