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| Year : 2019 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 171-172 |
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Castleman disease masquerading as the posterior mediastinal mass on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography
Vanshika Gupta1, Ritu Verma1, Dharmender Malik1, Ethel Shangne Belho1, Sunila Jain2, Harsh Mahajan1
1 Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT, Centre for Advanced Research in Imaging, Neuroscience and Genomics, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
2 Department of Pathology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Dharmender Malik
Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT, Centre for Advanced Research in Imaging, Neuroscience and Genomics, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_1_19
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A 28-year-old female presented with an incidentally detected mediastinal mass, found on routine chest X-ray. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) was advised to plan course of further management. FDG-PET/CT findings were suggestive of an FDG-avid soft-tissue mass in the left posterior mediastinum in paravertebral location with left pleural effusion. Overall, PET/CT scan findings favored the possibility of a nerve sheath tumor. However, histopathology along with immunohistochemistry confirmed the diagnosis of Castleman disease.
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