18F-FDG PET/CT in Renal Infections: Evidence of Acute Pyelonephritis in a Horseshoe Kidney.
Clin Nucl Med 2017;
42:112-113. [PMID:
27879491 DOI:
10.1097/rlu.0000000000001455]
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Abstract
A 58-year-old paraplegic patient was prescribed F-FDG for persistent inflammatory syndrome after aortic surgery for dissection. The examination was performed on a Siemens mCT Flow PET/CT and shows a moderate prostate uptake, related to prostatitis on self-catheterization and a focal renal cortical hypermetabolism of the left medial midpole of a horseshoe kidney, which corresponds to renal parenchyma on the CT, and suggests pyelonephritis, confirmed by Tc-DMSA SPECT/CT.
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