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A case of diffuse hepatic angiosarcoma diagnosed by FDG-PET

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A 76-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a 2-month history of increasing abdominal distension, leg edema, and dyspnea. The serum transaminase level was about twice the upper limit of normal. The CT showed no tumor. Fluorine-18 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-D-glucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET) showed diffuse abnormal accumulation throughout the entire liver. She was diagnosed by histopathological examination as having hepatic angiosarcoma causing veno-occlusive disease (VOD). This is the first report of hepatic angiosarcoma with FDG-PET.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, 1-4-3 Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, 545-8585, Osaka, Japan

    Ai Oe, Joji Kawabe, Kenji Torii, Etsushi Kawamura, Jin Kotani, Takehiro Hayashi & Susumu Shiomi

  2. Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan

    Daiki Habu & Hiroki Sakaguchi

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Oe, A., Habu, D., Kawabe, J. et al. A case of diffuse hepatic angiosarcoma diagnosed by FDG-PET. Ann Nucl Med 19, 519–521 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02985582

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