TY - JOUR
T1 - Diffuse F-18 FDG uptake in skeletal muscles secondary to chills resulting from sepsis
T2 - A cause for underestimation of viable tumor
AU - Ojha, Buddhiwardhan
AU - Muthukrishnan, Ashok
AU - Raman, Arun Kumar
AU - Satya, Ramadas
AU - Mahone, Tommy
AU - Forero-Torres, Andres
PY - 2004/9
Y1 - 2004/9
N2 - FDG PET was performed on a 42-year-old male patient with B-cell, low-grade follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma to evaluate the response to chemotherapy. The bone marrow lesions appeared to have improved compared with the prior PET scan, but there was intense skeletal muscle FDG uptake. Repeated scanning performed after 1 week revealed an increase in the size and intensity of bone marrow lesions compared with the pretherapy study, suggesting worsening. The authors present this case of generalized intense skeletal muscle uptake secondary to chills resulting from sepsis causing a falsely reduced tumor-to-normal tissue ratio.
AB - FDG PET was performed on a 42-year-old male patient with B-cell, low-grade follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma to evaluate the response to chemotherapy. The bone marrow lesions appeared to have improved compared with the prior PET scan, but there was intense skeletal muscle FDG uptake. Repeated scanning performed after 1 week revealed an increase in the size and intensity of bone marrow lesions compared with the pretherapy study, suggesting worsening. The authors present this case of generalized intense skeletal muscle uptake secondary to chills resulting from sepsis causing a falsely reduced tumor-to-normal tissue ratio.
KW - FDG
KW - PET
KW - Skeletal muscle activity
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U2 - 10.1097/01.rlu.0000135801.03969.97
DO - 10.1097/01.rlu.0000135801.03969.97
M3 - Article
C2 - 15311141
AN - SCOPUS:4243100599
SN - 0363-9762
VL - 29
SP - 600
EP - 601
JO - Clinical Nuclear Medicine
JF - Clinical Nuclear Medicine
IS - 9
ER -