Fig. 6

A female patient 57 years old presented with attacks of hemoptysis and proven histopathologically to have NSCLC. CT study reveals a malignant mass lesion involving the left upper lobe with a small 5 mm pulmonary nodule involving the right middle lobe and considered a metastatic nodule (M1a) (white arrow, a). The nodule showed insignificant FDG uptake as seen in b and c PET/CT images. The surgical staging of the patients by PET/CT changed from IVA to IIA