An unusual orbital localization of wegener granulomatosis detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT.

Clin Nucl Med

From the *Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Brescia and Spedali Civili Brescia, Brescia, Italy; and †Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT Center, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona, Switzerland.

Published: August 2014

We report a case of a 61-year-old male patient affected by Wegener granulomatosis and left exophthalmos who underwent F-FDG PET/CT during follow-up for rectal cancer. The study was negative for secondary lesions but revealed high uptake at the left orbital mass consistent with Wegener granulomatosis.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/RLU.0b013e31829b9e82DOI Listing

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