Table 1.
A summary of lipoid pneumonia cases conducting18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography.
| Case (Ref) | Age, sex | Lipid source | CT scan |
PET scan |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Form | Distribution | Size (mm) | Fat density | SUV | Pattern | |||
| 1 (3) | 72M | vegetable oil | multiple | RUL, RLL | ND | spotty | ND | peripheral |
| 2 (7) | 82M | mineral oil | solitary | RML | 33 | ND | 4.2 | nodular |
| 3 (4) | 65F | mineral oil | solitary | RML | 30 | – | 3.2 | nodular |
| 4 (5) | 65M | ND | solitary | RML | ND | ND | ND | spotty |
| 5 (8) | 76M | animal fat | solitary | RUL | 30 | ND | 11.6 | nodular |
| 6 (6) | 54M | ND | solitary | RLL | ND | spotty | 4.4 | spotty |
| 7 (9) | 72F | mineral oil | multiple | RLL, LLL | ND | spotty | ND | peripheral |
| 8 (10) | 73F | mineral oil | multiple | RLL, LUL | 60 | + | 5.4 | nodular |
| 9 (11) | 83F | vegetable oil | solitary | LUL | 20 | ND | normal | – |
| Present | 78M | unknown | multiple | RLL, LUL | 45 | spotty | 5.7 | spotty |
ND: no data, RUL: right upper lobe, RLL: right lower lobe, RML: right middle lobe.