Liu W, Delwaide J, Bletard N, Delvenne P, Meunier P, Hustinx R, Detry O. 18-Fluoro-deoxyglucose uptake in inflammatory hepatic adenoma: A case report. World J Hepatol 2017; 9(11): 562-566 [PMID: 28469812 DOI: 10.4254/wjh.v9.i11.562]
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Olivier Detry, Professor, Department of Abdominal Surgery and Transplantation, CHU Liege (CHU-ULg), Sart Tilman B35, B4000 Liege, Belgium. oli.detry@chu.ulg.ac.be
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
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Case Report
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World J Hepatol. Apr 18, 2017; 9(11): 562-566 Published online Apr 18, 2017. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v9.i11.562
18-Fluoro-deoxyglucose uptake in inflammatory hepatic adenoma: A case report
Willy Liu, Jean Delwaide, Noella Bletard, Philippe Delvenne, Paul Meunier, Roland Hustinx, Olivier Detry
Willy Liu, Olivier Detry, Department of Abdominal Surgery and Transplantation, CHU Liege (CHU-ULg), B4000 Liege, Belgium
Jean Delwaide, Department of Hepato-gastroenterology, CHU Liege (CHU-ULg), B4000 Liege, Belgium
Noella Bletard, Philippe Delvenne, Department of Pathology, CHU Liege (CHU-ULg), B4000 Liege, Belgium
Paul Meunier, Department of Radiology, CHU Liege (CHU-ULg), B4000 Liege, Belgium
Roland Hustinx, Department of Nuclear Imaging, CHU Liege (CHU-ULg), B4000 Liege, Belgium
Author contributions: Liu W collected the data, performed the literature review and wrote the paper; Delwaide J took care of the patient and collected the data; Bletard N and Delvenne P performed the pathology analyses and figures; Meunier P performed the radiologic investigations; Hustinx R performed the PET-CTs and wrote the manuscript; Detry O followed and operated the patients on and wrote the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: According to the Belgian Law and medical ethics, there is no need for an institutional review board for a retrospective report of an anonymized patient’s case.
Informed consent statement: According to the Belgian Law and medical ethics, there is no need for a consent form for the retrospective report of an anonymized patient’s case.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors have no conflict-of-interest to disclose concerning this manuscript.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Olivier Detry, Professor, Department of Abdominal Surgery and Transplantation, CHU Liege (CHU-ULg), Sart Tilman B35, B4000 Liege, Belgium. oli.detry@chu.ulg.ac.be
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Received: August 28, 2016 Peer-review started: August 29, 2016 First decision: November 21, 2016 Revised: January 25, 2017 Accepted: March 21, 2017 Article in press: March 21, 2017 Published online: April 18, 2017 Processing time: 228 Days and 14.9 Hours
Abstract
Positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET-CT) using 18-Fluoro-deoxyglucose (18FDG) is an imaging modality that reflects cellular glucose metabolism. Most cancers show an uptake of 18FDG and benign tumors do not usually behave in such a way. The authors report herein the case of a 38-year-old female patient with a past medical history of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and pheochromocytoma, in whom a liver lesion had been detected with PET-CT. The tumor was laparoscopically resected and the diagnosis of inflammatory hepatic adenoma was confirmed. This is the first description of an inflammatory hepatic adenoma with an 18FDG up-take.
Core tip: In cancer therapy, the use of 18-Fluoro-deoxyglucose (18FDG) positron emission tomography computed tomography as a staging or prognostic tool, is increasing. This is also the case for primary or secondary liver cancer. In this paper, the authors report the first description of an inflammatory hepatic adenoma with 18FDG uptake.
