A Rare Case of High-Grade Fetal Adenocarcinoma of the Lung Demonstrated by 18F-FDG PET/CT

Ling Xu; Yule Nan; Jingbo Wu; Aisheng Dong; Tong Lu

doi:10.1097/RLU.0000000000005628

A Rare Case of High-Grade Fetal Adenocarcinoma of the Lung Demonstrated by 18F-FDG PET/CT

Clin Nucl Med. 2024 Dec 13. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000005628. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Ling Xu, Yule Nan¹, Jingbo Wu², Aisheng Dong³, Tong Lu

Affiliations

¹ From the ∗Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shanghai Fifth People's Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
² Department of Pathology, Shanghai Fifth People's Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
³ Department of Nuclear Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.

PMID: 39668497
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000005628

Abstract

An 85-year-old non-smoking woman with right back pain for 1 month underwent a chest CT, which showed a mass with a maximum diameter of 12.2 cm in the upper lobe of right lung. The lesion demonstrated heterogeneous uptake on FDG PET scanning. The final pathology of the lung mass was a high-grade fetal adenocarcinoma of the lung, which was a rare histological form of malignant lung neoplasm. This case revealed the glucose avidity of the rare lung cancer.