False-Positive Hypermetabolic Lesions on Post-Treatment PET-CT after Influenza Vaccination

We report a case of a 59-year-old man with testicular germ cell tumor who showed new hypermetabolic lesions at the left axillary lymph nodes on a post-treatment positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scan. The hypermetabolic lesions were found to be caused by an influenza vaccinat...

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Main Authors:	Kim, Jeong-Eun, Kim, Eun Kyoung, Lee, Dae Ho, Kim, Sang-We, Suh, Cheolwon, Lee, Jung-Shin
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	The Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2011
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3110855/

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spelling	pubmed-31108552011-06-28 False-Positive Hypermetabolic Lesions on Post-Treatment PET-CT after Influenza Vaccination Kim, Jeong-Eun Kim, Eun Kyoung Lee, Dae Ho Kim, Sang-We Suh, Cheolwon Lee, Jung-Shin Case Report We report a case of a 59-year-old man with testicular germ cell tumor who showed new hypermetabolic lesions at the left axillary lymph nodes on a post-treatment positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scan. The hypermetabolic lesions were found to be caused by an influenza vaccination 10 days prior to the PET-CT scan and disappeared without additional treatment. To date, he is alive with complete remission. The Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2011-06 2011-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3110855/ /pubmed/21716913 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2011.26.2.210 Text en Copyright © 2011 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine
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author	Kim, Jeong-Eun Kim, Eun Kyoung Lee, Dae Ho Kim, Sang-We Suh, Cheolwon Lee, Jung-Shin
spellingShingle	Kim, Jeong-Eun Kim, Eun Kyoung Lee, Dae Ho Kim, Sang-We Suh, Cheolwon Lee, Jung-Shin False-Positive Hypermetabolic Lesions on Post-Treatment PET-CT after Influenza Vaccination
author_facet	Kim, Jeong-Eun Kim, Eun Kyoung Lee, Dae Ho Kim, Sang-We Suh, Cheolwon Lee, Jung-Shin
author_sort	Kim, Jeong-Eun
title	False-Positive Hypermetabolic Lesions on Post-Treatment PET-CT after Influenza Vaccination
title_short	False-Positive Hypermetabolic Lesions on Post-Treatment PET-CT after Influenza Vaccination
title_full	False-Positive Hypermetabolic Lesions on Post-Treatment PET-CT after Influenza Vaccination
title_fullStr	False-Positive Hypermetabolic Lesions on Post-Treatment PET-CT after Influenza Vaccination
title_full_unstemmed	False-Positive Hypermetabolic Lesions on Post-Treatment PET-CT after Influenza Vaccination
title_sort	false-positive hypermetabolic lesions on post-treatment pet-ct after influenza vaccination
description	We report a case of a 59-year-old man with testicular germ cell tumor who showed new hypermetabolic lesions at the left axillary lymph nodes on a post-treatment positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scan. The hypermetabolic lesions were found to be caused by an influenza vaccination 10 days prior to the PET-CT scan and disappeared without additional treatment. To date, he is alive with complete remission.
publisher	The Korean Association of Internal Medicine
publishDate	2011
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3110855/
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False-Positive Hypermetabolic Lesions on Post-Treatment PET-CT after Influenza Vaccination

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