Uptake of fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose in pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex infection.

作者信息

Bandoh Shuji, Fujita Jiro, Ueda Yutaka, Tojo Yasunori, Ishii Tomoya, Kubo Akihito, Yamamoto Yuka, Nishiyama Yoshihiro, Ishida Toshihiko

机构信息

First Department of Internal Medicine, Kagawa Medical University, Kagawa.

出版信息

Intern Med. 2003 Aug;42(8):726-9. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.726.

Two patients showing abnormal fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake due to Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection are presented. Intense focal FDG uptake in the lung field could have been caused by an infectious disease such as MAC. This should be considered as a possibility when FDG whole-body scans of patients with pulmonary nodules are interpreted. To our knowledge, this is the first description of an FDG-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) image of MAC infection of the lung.