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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nucl Med Commun. 2017 Apr;38(4):306–311. doi: 10.1097/MNM.0000000000000647

TABLE 2.

Twenty-two findings in 20 patients called suspicious/malignant on initial outside hospital PET/CT report were called benign on the second opinion report. In all 20 cases with a diagnosis on follow-up, a benign etiology was confirmed.

n n with follow-up
FDG-avid symmetric mediastinal/hilar nodes 4 3
FDG-avid adnexal cyst in premenopausal woman 3 3
FDG-avid rectal sphincter 3 3
FDG-avid post-radiation pneumonitis 2 1
FDG-avid thyroid lobes called nodes 1 1
FDG-avid thymus 1 1
Loculated pleural effusion called a mass 1 1
FDG-avid post-surgical inflammation 1 1
FDG-avid symmetric palatine tonsils 1 1
FDG-avid posterior cricoarytenoid muscle 1 1
FDG-avid brown fat 1 1
Bone marrow statistical noise 1 1
FDG-avid subcentimeter neck node 1 1
FDG-avid ulcerative colitis 1 1
Total 22 20