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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;81:1132-1134
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case report

Positive Imaging of Thymoma by 11C-Acetate Positron Emission Tomography

Takashi Ohtsuka, MD a , * , Hiroaki Nomori, MD, PhD a , Kenichi Watanabe, MD a , Tsuguo Naruke, MD, PhD a , Keiichi Suemasu, MD, PhD a , Noboru Kosaka, MD, PhD b , Kimiichi Uno, MD, PhD b

a Department of Thoracic Surgery and Saiseikai Central Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
b Nishidai Clinic, Tokyo, Japan

Accepted for publication January 5, 2005.

* Address correspondence to Dr Ohtsuka, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Saiseikai Central Hospital, 1-4-17 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-0073 Japan (Email: t-oh{at}remus.dti.ne.jp).

Several studies have shown that fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) is not useful for the diagnosis of thymoma. We describe 3 patients with thymoma who underwent both FDG-PET and carbon-11 (11C) acetate (AC)-PET. Although all three thymomas were successfully imaged by AC-PET, one of the thymomas was not imaged by FDG-PET. These results suggest that AC-PET may have a potentially important role in the diagnosis of thymoma. This is the first report of the use of AC-PET for diagnostic imaging of thymoma.




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