Role of 18F-FDG PET/CT in the Management of a Case of Autoimmune Pancreatitis With Extrapancreatic Manifestations

ABSTRACTAutoimmune pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer share many clinical features like advanced age, painless jaundice, weight loss, and elevated serum levels of CA 19-9. The authors report a 58-year-old male patient provisionally diagnosed with periampullary carcinoma on the basis of ultrasonograp...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Clinical nuclear medicine 2013-11, Vol.38 (11), p.e423-e425
Hauptverfasser:	Santhosh, Sampath, Bhattacharya, Anish, Harisankar, Chidambaram Natarajan Balasubramanian, Kochhar, Rakesh, Mittal, Bhagwant Rai
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Autoimmune Diseases - diagnostic imaging Autoimmune Diseases - drug therapy Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 Humans Male Middle Aged Pancreatitis - diagnostic imaging Pancreatitis - drug therapy Positron-Emission Tomography Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Zusammenfassung:	ABSTRACTAutoimmune pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer share many clinical features like advanced age, painless jaundice, weight loss, and elevated serum levels of CA 19-9. The authors report a 58-year-old male patient provisionally diagnosed with periampullary carcinoma on the basis of ultrasonography and serological markers and planned for Whipple resection. F-FDG PET/CT findings were suggestive of autoimmune pancreatitis, subsequently confirmed on cytological diagnosis. The follow-up PET/CT scan after 1 week of steroid therapy showed regression of FDG uptake in most of the lesions with appearance of salivary gland uptake.
ISSN:	0363-9762 1536-0229
DOI:	10.1097/RLU.0b013e31827086b5