Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen PET/CT: False-Positive Re

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Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen PET/CT: False-Positive Results due to Sarcoidosis?

May 22, 2017172 views

We report on a 72-year-old male patient who developed sarcoidosis of the mediastinal lymph nodes, the liver, and the prostate 11 years ago. Seven years later, he underwent transurethral resection of the prostate by laser due to hematuria. Pathology of the resected chips showed a ‘granulomatous prostatitis with epitheloid cells’. Malignancy was histologically excluded at that time...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5043264/

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