The role of PET/CT scan in addressing autoinflammatory diseases; A case report of a young man presenting with fever, splenomegaly and exanthem.
Adult-onset Still's disease is a rare disorder and it is a diagnosis of exclusion. High-grade fever along with arthralgias, splenomegaly, high serum ferritin levels and the presence of exanthem should pose high in the differential the AOSD. In this case, PET/CT guided the anatomical location for lymph node biopsy in order to differentiate AOSD from lymphoma. The dissociated increased <sup>18</sup>F-FDG uptake from the cervical and axillary lymph nodes is characteristic of AOSD.
Authors
- L Marinos
- Eleni Geladari
- Nikolaos Angelis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5149-7665)
- P Rondogianni
- Stylianos Benakis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4550-6172)
- Nikoletta Pianou
- Vasileios A Sevastianos
- Anna G Skourou
- Anastasia G Roumpaki
- Ioannis K Landrou
- Kyriaki A Papahristodoulou
- Stouras K Argirios
Institutions
- Evangelismos Hospital (GR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PubMed
- Published
- 2024-12-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1967/s002449912759
- Primary Topic
- Inflammasome and immune disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00