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A white, hard tumor was found to originate from the mesentery of the sigmoid colon and adhered slightly to the small intestine. The tumor was resected with a negative margin, and the pathologic diagnosis was suture granuloma. The possibility of suture granuloma should be kept in mind in cases of tumors with positive PET findings and a history of surgery close to the lesion. However, it is difficult to preoperatively diagnose pelvic tumors using a biopsy. Therefore, considering the possibility of malignancy, it is necessary to achieve complete resection without exposing the tumor.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.9738\/intsurg-d-14-00140.1","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,15]],"date-time":"2015-04-15T20:49:52Z","timestamp":1429130992000},"page":"604-607","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Suture Granuloma With False-Positive Findings on FDG-PET\/CT Resected via Laparoscopic Surgery"],"prefix":"10.9738","volume":"100","author":[{"given":"Nobuyoshi","family":"Takeshita","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Frontier Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Takayuki","family":"Tohma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Frontier Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hideaki","family":"Miyauchi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Frontier Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kazufumi","family":"Suzuki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Frontier Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Takanori","family":"Nishimori","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Frontier Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gaku","family":"Ohira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Frontier Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kazuo","family":"Narushima","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Frontier Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shunsuke","family":"Imanishi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Frontier Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Takeshi","family":"Toyozumi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Frontier Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hisahiro","family":"Matsubara","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Frontier Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"4721","reference":[{"issue":"7","key":"i0020-8868-100-4-604-b01","series-title":"Ann Acad Med Singapore","first-page":"457","article-title":"False positive F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose combined PET\/CT scans from suture granuloma and chronic inflammation: report of two cases and review of literature","volume":"34","author":"Lim\n              JW,","year":"2005","unstructured":"Lim\n              JW, \n            \n              Tang\n              CL, \n            \n              Keng\n              GH.\n            \n          \n          False positive F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose combined PET\/CT scans from suture granuloma and chronic inflammation: report of two cases and review of literature. 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