Case reveals increased uptake in lung lesions and pancreas in metastatic inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, suggesting diagnostic implications for pulmonary embolism evaluations.
A 65-year-old patient was incidentally found to have lung mass during the evaluation of possible pulmonary embolism 18 F-FDG PET/CT and 68 Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT both revealed abnormally increased activity in the lung lesions and multiple other sites, including pancreas. Pathology examination confirmed that the metastatic inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor.
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