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Query: UMLS:C0000727 (acute abdomen)
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A 31-year-old woman presenting with acute abdomen underwent an emergency Hartmann's procedure for fecal peritonitis due to perforated adenocarcinoma of the left colon. Shortly after a 7-month course of adjuvant chemotherapy, follow-up contrast-enhanced CT showed multiple peritoneal and hepatic nodules, showing focal intense and homogeneous FDG uptake on FDG-PET/CT, highly suspected for recurrence of disease. Excisional biopsy of the nodules revealed foreign body granulomas made up of alimentary materials surrounded by a fibrous wall. We report a unique case of a false-positive finding secondary to food residues mimicking metastatic disease on FDG-PET in a patient with colon cancer.
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PMID:Food residue granuloma mimicking metastatic disease on FDG-PET/CT. 2338 80

Urinary collecting system rupture is an uncommon condition that usually occurs with symptoms of acute abdomen, secondary to peritoneal irritation by urine leaking. We report a case of a 49-year-old man admitted to our emergency department because of a worsening deep lower abdominal pain started 3 days before. The abdominal computed tomography revealed urine extravasation suggesting for urinoma. Because of patient pathological history of lymphoma, despite its apparent state of remission, he underwent a positron emission tomography - computed tomography with 18[F]-FDG and magnetic resonance in order to rule out a recurrence. Imaging supported the diagnostic hypothesis of a lymphatic recurrence that had compressed "ab-extrinseco" the urinary tract so much to break it. Based on our experience we can suggest that nontraumatic calyceal-pelvic rupture is an extremely rare manifestation of an onset of lymphoma.
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PMID:Recurrent MALT lymphoma presenting as renal calyceal-pelvic rupture. What is the cause of this break? 3133 7