RESUMEN
We report a case of liver amoebic abscesses in a 58-year-old man referred for a FDG PET/CT with an initial diagnosis of secondary hepatic lesions. This patient, coming from Sri Lanka, presented with fever and shivers, pain in the right flank, vomiting, and diarrhea for a month. The FDG PET/CT showed a hepatic heterogeneous uptake with multiple cold lesions surrounded by a faint hypermetabolism. As this result was not typical of hepatic metastases, a hepatic biopsy was performed leading to the diagnosis of amoebic abscess.
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Fluorodesoxiglucosa F18 , Absceso Hepático Amebiano/diagnóstico por imagen , Imagen Multimodal , Tomografía de Emisión de Positrones , Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos X , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana EdadRESUMEN
A 61-year-old man was referred to us for palpitations and ventricular tachycardia. After being treated by chemotherapy for a mediastinum lymphoplasmocytic lymphoma, a ventricular tachycardia (VT) occurred. It was well tolerated. Several imaging techniques showed that this VT was related to a tumoural infiltration of the anterior part of the right ventricle by the lymphoma. Ventricular arrhythmias were controlled under antiarrhythmic drugs and chemotherapy was continued, with close cardiac follow-up. Complete remission was reached with restoration of a normal right ventricular function and resolution of the ventricular arrhythmias.