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© 2018 Russian Electronic Journal of Radiology. All Rights Reserved. Purpose. To present abilities and limitations of Whole body MRI and FDG-PET/CT in the setting of sarcoid reaction and to stress the importance of use of broader differential diagnosis during interpreting its results. Materials and methods. The observation is introduced from clinical practice, examination was performed on 1.5 Tesla MRI scanner with the acquisition of four regions of interest: head and neck, thorax, abdomen, pelvis and upper thigh. Scanning protocol included diffusion-weighted imaging sequence. Results. The examination has let us exclude the presence of the active tumor tissue in breast cancer patient after systemic neoadjuvant treatment and drew our attention to false positive PET/CT result, which in turn led to change of further treatment strategy. Conclusions. Interpretation of FDG-PET/CT should be done in a complex manner with clinical, laboratory and radiological data correlation.