Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Pulmonary echinococcosis mimicking multipl lung metastasis of breast cancer: The role of fluoro-deoxy-glucose positron emission tomography | BioMed Central World Journal of Surgical Oncology Open Access Case report Pulmonary echinococcosis mimicking multipl lung metastasis of breast cancer The role of fluoro-deoxy-glucose positron emission tomography Yavuz Kurt 1 Qlker Sucullu1 Ali Qlker Filiz1 Muammer Urhan2 and Mehmet Levhi AkRn1 Address Department of General Surgery GATA Haydarpasa Istanbul Turkey and 2Department of Nuclear Medicine GATA Haydarapasa Istanbul Turkey Email Yavuz Kurt - drykurt@ Qlker Sucullu - ilkersucullu@ Ali Qlker Filiz - aliilker@ Muammer Urhan - muammerurhan@ Mehmet Levhi AkRn - ak1nm@ Corresponding author Published 21 January 2008 Received 15 January 2007 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6 7 doi l477-78l9-6-7 Accepted 21 January 2008 This article is available from http content 6 l 7 2008 Kurt et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Echinococcosis is still a serious problem particularly in endemic areas such as South and Central America Mediterranean countries and Russia. Furthermore hydatid cysts of the lung are often indistinguishable from a variety of other pulmonary lesions such as lung tumors Case presentation We herein present a 56 year old woman with breast cancer who presented with bilateral pulmonary nodules due to echinococcosis granulosis that mimicked metastatic breast cancer to the lung. Conclusion During the evaluation of the malignancies which could metastasize to the lung it must be kept in mind that the appearance of bilateral multiple pulmonary masses can also be the sign of a pulmonary echinococcosis especially in endemic areas. FDG-PET with its known high negative predictive value in characterizing indeterminate .
