Incidental Detection of a Type B3 Thymoma on 68Ga-FAPI-04 PET/CT Imaging
Clinical Nuclear Medicine, cilt.48, sa.1, 2023 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Derleme
- Cilt numarası: 48 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2023
- Doi Numarası: 10.1097/rlu.0000000000004410
- Dergi Adı: Clinical Nuclear Medicine
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, EMBASE
- Anahtar Kelimeler: thymoma, FAPI, FDG, PET/CT
- Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
18F-FDG PET/CT performed for staging of colon cancer in a 60-year-old woman revealed a thymic neoplasm with increased radiopharmaceutical uptake in the anterior mediastinum. 68Ga-FAPI PET/CT showed low FAPI uptake in the anterior mediastinal mass. The patient was diagnosed with type B3 thymoma by histopathologic evaluation. In this case, thymoma demonstrated lower uptake with FAPI than FDG. Larger studies are required for the differentiation of malignant and benign mediastinal masses with FAPI.