Fig. 2.

This 51-year-old patient had recently received an allogenic stem cell transplantation because of myelodysplastic syndrome. He was admitted to the ICU with respiratory failure. A FDG-PET/CT scan was performed after 3 weeks of ICU admission because of fever that persisted despite antibiotics and antifungal treatment, showing abnormal accumulation of the tracer in the right thyroid lobe, suggestive of an abscess. A subsequent hemithyroidectomy confirmed the presence of an abscess. Cultures of this material showed C. albicans