Panagiotidis Emmanouil, Paschali Anna, Chatzipavlidou Vassiliki
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Theageneio Cancer Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Indian J Nucl Med. 2021 Jan-Mar;36(1):80-81. doi: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_63_20. Epub 2021 Mar 4.
Emergency pathologies often accompany malignancies. We herein report a case of pulmonary abscess in a patient with esophageal cancer which was depicted during the F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) staging study. The patient's history of recent dilatation of the cancer stenosis in adjunct to the previous CT lung imaging, which was normal, made evident the diagnosis of the pulmonary abscess due to the perforation of the esophageal neoplasm. This life-threatening condition was promptly referred and successfully managed.
紧急病症常伴随恶性肿瘤。我们在此报告一例食管癌患者发生肺脓肿的病例，该病例在F-18-氟脱氧葡萄糖正电子发射断层扫描/计算机断层扫描（PET/CT）分期研究中被发现。患者近期有癌性狭窄扩张病史，之前的胸部CT成像正常，结合这些情况，因食管肿瘤穿孔导致肺脓肿的诊断得以明确。这种危及生命的情况被及时转诊并得到成功处理。
