Incidental detection of increased 18F-FDG uptake and its follow-up in patients with granulomatous prostatitis after BCG treatment for urinary bladder cancer - Abstract

Incidental prostate uptake of fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose in positron emission tomography/computed tomography (¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT) may represent malignancies like prostate malignancy, inflammation or benign prostatic lesions.

We report two cases of bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-induced granulomatous prostatitis that showed ¹⁸F-FDG uptake of the prostate gland on ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT in patients who had previously received intravesical BCG treatment for bladder cancer. The degree of ¹⁸F-FDG uptake was decreased on the follow-up PET/CT scan after one year, without any specific treatment.

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Kim CY, Lee SW, Yoon G, Jeong SY, Ahn BC, Lee J.   Are you the author?
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Medical Center and School of Medicine, 807 Hoguk-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu, 702-210, Republic of Korea.  

Reference: Hell J Nucl Med. 2014 Nov 12. pii: s002449910146. 

PubMed Abstract
PMID: 25397626

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