Abstract
A 54 year-old-man presented with chest fullness and difficulty of breathing for 3 months. CT thorax revealed a heterogeneously enhancing mediastinal mass for which CT-guided biopsy results were initially inconclusive. The patient underwent 18F-FDG-PET/CT study for further metabolic characterisation and staging of the disease. 18F-FDG -PET/CT showed heterogeneous FDG-avid mediastinal mass with adjoining multiple FDG-avid hilar lymph nodes, pulmonary and bone metastasis. Final diagnosis of malignant thymoma was confirmed after a successful PET/CT-guided needle biopsy. © 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
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Fathinul Fikri, A. S., Nordin, A. J., Mohtarrudin, N., Hemalata, & Lau, W. F. E. (2011). 18[F] FDG-PET/CT is a useful molecular marker in evaluating thymoma aggressiveness. European Journal of Radiology Extra, 78(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrex.2011.02.006
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