Incidentally find an adrenal tumor on health screening by FDG-PET/CT Nan-Jing Peng, MD Department Nuclear Medicine

 Abstract: Whole-body FDG-PET has been used to screen underlying malignancy of health people for decades. Recently, PET/CT has been advocated as a tool for improvement of diagnosis by FDG- PET. We assessed the PET/CT results of asymptomatic individuals for health screening in our PET center. The final confirmation of cancer was based on pathologic report. Here, a case of benign adrenal tumor was presented.

SUVmax: 4.3  3.3 Pathology: Conn’s disease 57 y/o female A 1.2 cm well- defined low- density nodule with increased FDG uptake in right adrenal gland (HUmean <5 ). Figure 1