Patient History

49 year old male, life long smoker.

Study Findings

Evidence of involvement of entire upper right lobe of lung without evidence of mediastinal involvement.

Note necrotic core in lesion.

Reference

Duhaylongsord, Francis G., Lowe, Val J, Patz, Edward F., Vaughn, Anna L., Coleman, R. Edward and Wolfe, Walter Gl, "Detection of Primary and Recurrent Lung Cancer by Means of F-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography" The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. July 1995, 130-140.

 

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