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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · World J Nucl Med 2022; 21(04): 342-344
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1750399
Case Report

Atypical Muscular Sarcoidosis Involvement Revealed by 18F-FDG PET/CT

Yousif A. Lucinian
1   Department of Medical Imaging, Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
,
Patrick Martineau
2   Functional Imaging, Cancer, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
3   Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
,
Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau
1   Department of Medical Imaging, Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
4   Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Abstract

We present the case of a 65-year-old woman with known pulmonary and muscular sarcoidosis who presented with dyspnea. FDG-PET/CT revealed unsuspected active myositis of multiple muscle groups, including the neck, and was useful in monitoring treatment response.

Keywords

sarcoidosis - myositis - PET - FDG - fluoro-deoxyglucose


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Article published online:
09 September 2022

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