Giant benign solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura: PET/CT findings

Clin Nucl Med. 2012 Jul;37(7):702-4. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31824c6054.

Abstract

A chest radiograph revealed a large left lower hemithorax mass in a 48-year-old nonsmoker woman with chronic cough and dyspnea. Whole-body contrast-enhanced PET/CT confirmed a large mass with relatively uniform mild FDG uptake (standardized uptake value=1.8). No signs of infiltration, pleural effusion, significant regional lymph nodes, or extrathoracic lesions were seen. A presumptive diagnosis of a probable benign solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura (SFTP) was considered. SFTP was confirmed at surgery. Few reported cases have described the PET/CT findings of SFTPs.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Multimodal Imaging*
  • Positron-Emission Tomography*
  • Solitary Fibrous Tumor, Pleural / diagnostic imaging*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*