Lung and Nodal Involvement in Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease: PET/CT Role

Table 1

The clinical records and radiological examination of patients with positive cultures for NTM species and M. tuberculosis.

Patient	Age	Sex	Agent isolated	Sample	Anti-HIV antibody	ESR	Clinic	Comorbidity	Lymph node	Lymph node uptake PET; (SUV max)	Radiological lung patterns	Lung lesion uptake PET; (SUV max)
1	40	M	M. kansasii	BAS	—	18	Evening fever	Bronchial and allergic asthma	4 R	1,03	Small consolidation LUL	No uptake
									3	0,92
									4 L	1,04
2	77	M	M. xenopi	Sputum	—	24	Fever, cough	Diabetes mellitus,; arterial hypertension	7	1,68	Pseudonodular consolidation RLL	9,01
									3	1,50
											Right basal pleural effusion	6,06
									4 R	1,19
3	38	M	M. kansasii	Sputum	—	31	Fever, cough; with sputum	No	3	1,70	Cavitary lesion RUL	2,60
											Cavity apical segment RLL	3,15
									7	1,20
											Cavity LUL	5,36
4	70	M	MAC	Sputum	—	21	Evening fever, cough with mucopurulent sputum	COPD, diabetes; mellitus	7	0,9	Right posterior basal pleural thickening	1,80
											Left posterior basal pleural thickening	1,14
											Calcification of the anterior segment of RUL	No uptake
5	67	M	M.  kansasii	Sputum	—	27	Cough, dyspnea	COPD, arterial hypertension	4 L	0,96	Apical nodular consolidation RUL	1,64
											Pleural thickening anterior basal lateral right	1,39
6	76	M	MAC	BAS	—	23	Dyspnea on exertion, evening fever	Aortic valve; replacement	7	1,16	Subpleural nodular consolidation anterior segment RUL	4,50
											Subpleural nodular; consolidations LUL	2,70
											Mild bilateral parenchymal consolidation	3,70
											Mantle calcified sequelae of UL and of left hilum	No uptake
7	34	M	M.  tuberculosis	BAS	—	94	Fever, cough; with sputum	No	2 R	15,72	Consolidation + small cavitary lesions apical segment RUL	15,10
									4 R	6,93
											Basal consolidation; segments RLL	22,75
									10 R	7,55	GGO + micronodules of apical; segment LUL	3,60
									7	8,20
8	49	M	M.  tuberculosis	BAS	—	63	Fever, cough; with sputum	Arterial hypertension	2 R	8,55	Diffuse subpleural consolidation of right lung	11,58
									2 L	8,55
									3	8,55	Diffuse subpleural consolidation; of left lung	12,27
									4 R	8,55
									4 L	8,55	Consolidation of posterior segment RUL	12,24
									5	8,55
									7	8,55	Consolidation of apical-dorsal segment LUL	17,06
									8	8,55
									10 R; 10 L	8,55; 8,55	Diffuse micronodules in both lungs (miliary)	8,95
9	61	F	M.  tuberculosis	BAS	—	27	Weight loss, cough with sputum	Diabetes mellitus, sinus tachycardia, HBV+	2 R	3,30	Consolidation with excavation; and various contextual; calcifications of posterior; segment RUL	4,19
									3	8,10
									4 R	5,90
									8	7,70
									10 R	7,56
									Right axillary	12,94
									Retromandibular left	7,60
10	78	F	M.  tuberculosis	BAS	—	79	Fever, dry; cough	Atrial fibrillation,; arterial hypertension, and hemorrhoids	No linphonodes		Multiple focal bilateral consolidations; the greater is; the left hilar	8,00
											Bilateral pleural effusions	No uptake
11	39	F	M.  tuberculosis	Sputum	—	61	Fever, dyspnea on exertion	No	2 R	2,77	Consolidation of posterior and lateral basal segments RUL	19,55
									4 R	3,50	Consolidation RUL	3,54
12	51	M	M.  tuberculosis	BAS	—	32	Hemoptysis, fever	Rheumatoid arthritis, ischemic heart disease	3	1,78	Cavity apical segment LUL	6,55
									5	1,78	Intrascissural left consolidation	4,53
									Left axillary	4,17	Lung consolidation RUL	1,20

GGO: ground glass opacity. RUL: right upper lobe. LUL: left upper lobe. BAS: bronchoaspirate. ESR: erythrocyte sedimentation rate.