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AJR 2003; 180:519-522
© American Roentgen Ray Society

Original Report

Thymic Enlargement and FDG Uptake in Three Patients: CT and FDG Positron Emission Tomography Correlated with Pathology

Conrad Wittram1, Allan J. Fischman1, Eugene Mark2, Jane Ko3 and Jo-Anne O. Shepard1

1 Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA 02114.
2 Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, Boston, MA 02114.
3 Department of Radiology, Thoracic Imaging, New York University, 560 1st Ave., New York, NY 10016.

OBJECTIVE. Our purpose was to describe three adult patients in whom we found increased thymic uptake of FDG on positron emission tomography and thymic enlargement with convex lateral margins on CT. Subsequent biopsy or resection showed normal thymic tissue.

CONCLUSION. In three adults, we found a physiologic uptake of FDG by the thymus with standardized uptake values in the range of thymic neoplasia.


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