DOI: 10.1097/rlu.0000000000005628 ISSN: 1536-0229

A Rare Case of High-Grade Fetal Adenocarcinoma of the Lung Demonstrated by 18F-FDG PET/CT

Ling Xu, Yule Nan, Jingbo Wu, Aisheng Dong, Tong Lu

Abstract

An 85-year-old non-smoking woman with right back pain for 1 month underwent a chest CT, which showed a mass with a maximum diameter of 12.2 cm in the upper lobe of right lung. The lesion demonstrated heterogeneous uptake on FDG PET scanning. The final pathology of the lung mass was a high-grade fetal adenocarcinoma of the lung, which was a rare histological form of malignant lung neoplasm. This case revealed the glucose avidity of the rare lung cancer.

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