TY - JOUR
T1 - Enlarging 18F-FDG-Avid Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
T2 - A Distinctly Unusual Presentation of Cytomegalovirus Infection in a Patient Receiving Chemotherapy
AU - Zamora, Edgar
AU - Edema, Ukuemi
AU - Zuckier, Lionel S.
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PY - 2023/10/1
Y1 - 2023/10/1
N2 - Rapidly growing lung lesions, particularly in immunocompromised patients, invoke consideration of an infectious etiology. Aspergillomas, for example, can appear as round nodules with soft tissue attenuation, often associated with cavitation, and are variably 18F-FDG avid. In contrast, cytomegalovirus, which may also evidence 18F-FDG uptake, typically manifests as ground-glass opacities, symmetrically distributed small pulmonary nodules, or confluent consolidations, with lower lobe predilection. We describe a patient treated for lymphoma presenting with a solitary enlarging FDG-avid lung nodule, which was determined on resection to be focal cytomegalovirus infection, a distinctly uncommon presentation of this pathogen, more typical of fungal or mycobacterial disease.
AB - Rapidly growing lung lesions, particularly in immunocompromised patients, invoke consideration of an infectious etiology. Aspergillomas, for example, can appear as round nodules with soft tissue attenuation, often associated with cavitation, and are variably 18F-FDG avid. In contrast, cytomegalovirus, which may also evidence 18F-FDG uptake, typically manifests as ground-glass opacities, symmetrically distributed small pulmonary nodules, or confluent consolidations, with lower lobe predilection. We describe a patient treated for lymphoma presenting with a solitary enlarging FDG-avid lung nodule, which was determined on resection to be focal cytomegalovirus infection, a distinctly uncommon presentation of this pathogen, more typical of fungal or mycobacterial disease.
KW - F-FDG PET/CT
KW - cytomegalovirus
KW - mimicking malignancy
KW - pneumonia
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U2 - 10.1097/RLU.0000000000004794
DO - 10.1097/RLU.0000000000004794
M3 - Article
C2 - 37656604
AN - SCOPUS:85170295366
SN - 0363-9762
VL - 48
SP - 917
EP - 918
JO - Clinical nuclear medicine
JF - Clinical nuclear medicine
IS - 10
ER -