False-positive lesions mimicking breast cancer on FDG PET and PET/CT

Margaret Adejolu; Lei Huo; Eric M. Rohren; Lumarie Santiago; Wei T. Yang

doi:10.2214/AJR.11.7130

False-positive lesions mimicking breast cancer on FDG PET and PET/CT

Margaret Adejolu, Lei Huo, Eric M. Rohren, Lumarie Santiago, Wei T. Yang

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE. Incidental ¹⁸F-FDG-avid breast lesions are commonly encountered in patients with cancer who undergo staging PET/CT. This pictorial essay discusses breast lesions that show increased FDG activity, mimicking breast cancer, with biopsy-confirmed benign diagnosis. CONCLUSION. Acute and chronic inflammation, physiologic lactation, and benign breast masses, including silicone granuloma, fat necrosis, fibroadenoma, and postsurgical changes, may show increased FDG uptake on PET/CT. These conditions can often be differentiated from malignancy by correlative imaging, including mammography, sonography, or MRI.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	American Journal of Roentgenology
Volume	198
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2214/AJR.11.7130
State	Published - Mar 1 2012

Keywords

Breast
Mammography
Neoplasm
PET/CT
Ultrasound

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Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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False-positive lesions mimicking breast cancer on FDG PET and PET/CT

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