Atypical rounded atelectasis: Diagnosis and management based on results of F-18 FDG positron emission tomography

Norna Ludeman; Brett M. Elicker; Gautham P. Ready; W. Richard Webb; Jessica W.T. Leung; Michael B. Gotway

doi:10.1097/01.rlu.0000182265.17985.d0

Atypical rounded atelectasis: Diagnosis and management based on results of F-18 FDG positron emission tomography

Norna Ludeman, Brett M. Elicker, Gautham P. Ready, W. Richard Webb, Jessica W.T. Leung, Michael B. Gotway

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Abstract

A 58-year-old man presented with bilateral focal pulmonary opacities in the setting of asbestos-related pleural disease. CT features of the opacities were insufficiently characteristic to diagnose rounded atelectasis. Needle biopsy failed to exclude malignancy. FDG-PET imaging showed minimal metabolic activity within these opacities, allowing conservative management, as opposed to thoracotomy. Although FDG-PET findings of rounded atelectasis are known, little is known about FDG-PET results in patients with atypical rounded atelectasis on CT. FDG-PET is a useful test in the setting of asbestos-related pleural disease and rounded atelectasis, and may obviate need for more invasive and expensive diagnostic procedures.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	734-735
Number of pages	2
Journal	Clinical nuclear medicine
Volume	30
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/01.rlu.0000182265.17985.d0
State	Published - Nov 2005

Keywords

Asbestos-related pleural disease
Positron emission tomography
Pulmonary nodule
Rounded atelectasis

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Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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