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The electronic medical record identified 44 patients who underwent PET\/CT between January 2006 and December 2010 and had a history of talc pleurodesis. For each exam, we evaluated the distribution pattern, size, and attenuation of intrathoracic lymph nodes and the associated standardized uptake value. <jats:italic>Results<\/jats:italic>. High-attenuation intrathoracic lymph nodes were noted in 11 patients (25%), and all had corresponding increased FDG uptake (range 2\u20139\u2009mm). Involved nodal groups were anterior peridiaphragmatic (100%), paracardiac (45%), internal mammary (25%), and peri-IVC (18%) nodal stations. Seven of the 11 patients (63%) had involvement of multiple lymph nodal groups. Mean longitudinal PET\/CT and standalone CT followups of <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"M1\"><mml:mrow><mml:mn>15<\/mml:mn><mml:mo>\u00b1<\/mml:mo><mml:mn>11<\/mml:mn><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:math> months showed persistence of both high-attenuation and increased uptake at these sites, without increase in nodal size suggesting metastatic disease involvement. <jats:italic>Conclusions<\/jats:italic>. FDG avid, high-attenuation lymph nodes along the lymphatic drainage pathway for parietal pleura are a relatively common finding following talc pleurodesis and should not be mistaken for nodal metastases during the evaluation of patients with history of lung cancer.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1155\/2013\/683582","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,26]],"date-time":"2013-05-26T21:00:31Z","timestamp":1369602031000},"page":"1-6","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Potential Pitfall in the Assessment of Lung Cancer with FDG-PET\/CT: Talc Pleurodesis Causes Intrathoracic Nodal FDG Avidity"],"prefix":"10.1155","volume":"2013","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3040-7368","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Yingbing","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Division of Thoracic Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Brett W.","family":"Carter","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Division of Thoracic Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Victorine","family":"Muse","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Division of Thoracic Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Subba","family":"Digumarthy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Division of Thoracic Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jo-Anne","family":"Shepard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Division of Thoracic Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Amita","family":"Sharma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Division of Thoracic Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"92","DOI":"10.2214\/ajr.182.1.1820092","volume":"182","year":"2004","journal-title":"American Journal of Roentgenology"},{"issue":"2","key":"2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"111","DOI":"10.1097\/00005382-200605000-00003","volume":"21","year":"2006","journal-title":"Journal of Thoracic Imaging"},{"issue":"2","key":"3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"359","DOI":"10.2214\/ajr.168.2.9016206","volume":"168","year":"1997","journal-title":"American Journal of Roentgenology"},{"key":"4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1378\/chest.125.6.2356"},{"key":"5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1097\/RLU.0b013e3181bece11"},{"issue":"6","key":"6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1707","DOI":"10.1378\/chest.107.6.1707","volume":"107","year":"1995","journal-title":"Chest"},{"key":"7","year":"2007"},{"key":"8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1259\/bjr\/73516936"},{"issue":"1","key":"9","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"45","DOI":"10.2214\/ajr.156.1.1898569","volume":"156","year":"1991","journal-title":"American Journal of Roentgenology"}],"container-title":["Lung Cancer International"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/downloads.hindawi.com\/archive\/2013\/683582.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/downloads.hindawi.com\/archive\/2013\/683582.xml","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/downloads.hindawi.com\/archive\/2013\/683582.pdf","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,10]],"date-time":"2020-12-10T14:07:57Z","timestamp":1607609277000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.hindawi.com\/journals\/lci\/2013\/683582\/"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,26]]},"references-count":9,"alternative-id":["683582","683582"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1155\/2013\/683582","relation":{},"ISSN":["2090-3197","2090-3200"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2090-3197","type":"print"},{"value":"2090-3200","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,26]]}}}