Diagnosis of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis was done by exclusion in a 54-year-old woman with dyspnoea, chest pain, cough and fatigue showing positivity of 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography total body imaging which turned out to normal after six and eighteen months of prednisone and pirfernidone treatment.

Diagnosis of an unusual case of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis by 18F-FDG PET/CT

Negrini S.;Puppo F.
2020-01-01

Abstract

Diagnosis of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis was done by exclusion in a 54-year-old woman with dyspnoea, chest pain, cough and fatigue showing positivity of 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography total body imaging which turned out to normal after six and eighteen months of prednisone and pirfernidone treatment.
2020
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Idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis; Positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT)
Carbone R. G.; Murdaca G.; Negrini S.; Penna D.; Puppo F.
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