18F-FDG PET/CT in Extranodal Burkitt Lymphoma. (September 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jiménez Granero, Pedro; García Gómez, Francisco Javier; Ruiz Mercado, Marta; Borrego Dorado, Isabel
• Is Part Of: Clinical nuclear medicine. Volume 40:Number 9(2015)
• Publication Date: 2015-09
• Subjects: Nuclear medicine -- Periodicals; Radioisotope scanning -- Periodicals; Nuclear Medicine -- Periodicals; 616.07575
• DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000000885
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0363-9762

Abstract

<abstract> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <sec> <title>Abstract</title> <p>Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is a poorly differentiated non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma, more frequent in children than in adults. The extranodal debut of the disease is rare. We report a 43-year-old male patient with history of dyspnea. Burkitt lymphoma diagnosis was reached after biopsy of a pleural lesion. An initial staging ¹⁸F-FDG-PET/CT revealed large high-uptake lymphatic clusters in mediastinum, lung hilum, and extranodal involvement in pleura, pericardium, periphery of liver and spleen, all the omentum and peritoneum down to the pelvic floor, and bone marrow infiltration.</p> </sec> </abstract>