Diagnosis of an unusual case of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis by 18F-FDG PET/CT

Roberto G Carbone; Giuseppe Murdaca; Simone Negrini; Daniele Penna; Francesco Puppo

doi:10.1016/j.radcr.2020.01.022

Diagnosis of an unusual case of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis by ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT

Radiol Case Rep. 2020 Feb 17;15(4):435-436. doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2020.01.022. eCollection 2020 Apr.

Authors

Roberto G Carbone¹, Giuseppe Murdaca¹, Simone Negrini¹, Daniele Penna², Francesco Puppo¹

Affiliations

¹ Department on Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
² Affidea IRMET, Turin, Italy.

Abstract

Diagnosis of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis was done by exclusion in a 54-year-old woman with dyspnoea, chest pain, cough and fatigue showing positivity of 2-deoxy-2-[¹⁸F]fluoro-D-glucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography total body imaging which turned out to normal after six and eighteen months of prednisone and pirfernidone treatment.

Keywords: Idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis; Positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT).

Publication types

Case Reports