{"title":"Fluorine-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Uptake of Jejunal Lymphocytosis Due to Giardiasis Mimicking Lymphoma Recurrence.","authors":"Koramadai Karuppusamy Kamaleshwaran, Ramkumar Elumalai, Bharat Rangarajan","doi":"10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_70_23","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Giardia lamblia</i> is an intestinal protozoan with oral-fecal transmission. Infection is predominantly located in the small intestine. Giardiasis causes intraepithelial lymphocytosis in the small intestine which causes false-positive fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake mimicking malignancy. We present here an interesting image of fluorine-18 FDG positron emission tomography/computed tomography showing jejunal uptake caused by giardiasis in a known case of lymphoma.</p>","PeriodicalId":45830,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine","volume":"39 1","pages":"59-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11135374/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_70_23","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2024/3/27 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Giardia lamblia is an intestinal protozoan with oral-fecal transmission. Infection is predominantly located in the small intestine. Giardiasis causes intraepithelial lymphocytosis in the small intestine which causes false-positive fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake mimicking malignancy. We present here an interesting image of fluorine-18 FDG positron emission tomography/computed tomography showing jejunal uptake caused by giardiasis in a known case of lymphoma.