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Q: What does mildly hypermetabolic mean on a petscan?
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What is hypermetabolic activity ranging up to 6.46 on PET Scan?

Hypermetabolic activity ranging up to 6.46 on a PET scan can mean one or two things. It can either mean you have cancer or an infection.


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What does mildly mean?

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What do they mean when they say that they didn't find any hypermetabolic areas?

A hypermetabolic area is one that is using nutrients faster than others. The clinical meaning of this finding depends on the reason the study was done. Your health care provider has information on the type of study and its purpose that you did not provide in your question.


What does reflected mildly mean?

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What does hypermetabolic mean on a PET Scan?

It means that the tissue is absorbing the radioactive sugar they injected you with prior to the PET scan. Different tissues absorb this at different rates and hypermetabolic means that the target tissue is absorbing the sugar at rates above the norm (as happens with infected/inflammed tissue and cancer cells).


What is right lower paratracheal lymp nodemildly hypermetabolic?

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Mildly dilated left ventricle?

A mildly dilated left ventricle could mean a wide variety of things. You may have an enlarged heart, or you could be on a medication that is causing this.


What is hypermetabolic lymphadenopathy?

Hypermetabolic indicates that the lymph nodes are using more sugar than normal. This is a critical diagnosis because most cancer cells have a higher metabolic rate than normal cells. Lymphadenopathy just means that the lymph nodes in question are swollen or enlarged.


What does it mean mildly tortuous thoracic aorta?

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Where in the US is it cold and windy?

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