Pan-Costochondritis Caused by Aspergillus Diagnosed by 18F-FDG PET/CT

Pan-Costochondritis Caused by Aspergillus Diagnosed by 18F-FDG PET/CT

ABSTRACTThoracic pain is an entity that can be difficult to diagnose etiologically. Once the cardiac origin has been ruled out, the rheumatologic, neoplastic, and infectious causes have to be taken into account. We present the case of a patient with atypical chest pain after triple-bypass surgery in...

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Veröffentlicht in:Clinical nuclear medicine 2018-10, Vol.43 (10), p.e381-e382
Hauptverfasser: Oliván-Sasot, Patricia, Martínez-Sanchis, Begoña, Sánchez-Vañó, Raquel, Yepes-Agudelo, Ana María, Bello-Arques, Pilar
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:ABSTRACTThoracic pain is an entity that can be difficult to diagnose etiologically. Once the cardiac origin has been ruled out, the rheumatologic, neoplastic, and infectious causes have to be taken into account. We present the case of a patient with atypical chest pain after triple-bypass surgery in whom F-FDG PET/CT scan showed an important uptake of the radiopharmaceutical in costal cartilages, in relation to pan-costochondritis due to Aspergillus.
ISSN:0363-9762
1536-0229
DOI:10.1097/RLU.0000000000002237