Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Correspondence to: Simona Di Lascio. A new widespread intense splenic FDG uptake without nodular lesions and multiple FDG-avid mediastinal and abdominal nodes were observed.
Based on these findings, a nodal and transbronchial lung biopsy was performed. Histological results were compatible with sarcoidosis.
The patient began steroid treatment and 6 weeks after a PET-CT showed normalisation of both splenic and nodal uptake. Keywords: 18F-FDG, positron emission tomography, spleen sarcoidosis, breast cancer. Sarcoidosis is a benign systemic granulomatous disorder of unknown aetiology.
The condition usually involves the lungs and mediastinal or hilar nodes [ 1 ]. Blank et al. A retrospective report of 12 cases and a literature review showed that sarcoidosis frequently affects patients with breast cancer We report the case of a year-old woman diagnosed with left breast cancer in The histology showed an oestrogen ER and progesteron PgR receptor positive, HER2 negative, invasive lobular carcinoma, with some palpable left axillary nodes.
The staging CT scan showed multiple mediastinal and abdominal lymph nodes. The patient was asymptomatic. Considering her breast cancer as metastatic, she received surgery on the primary tumour and axillary nodes but no radiation treatment and started palliative letrozole.
