FDG PET in primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) of the pericardium
| Autor: | Elizabeth Glass, Elizabeth Eapen, Elizabeth D. Ames, Peeyush Bhargava, Jeffrey Brown |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Předmět: |
Male
medicine.medical_specialty Lymphoma Pericardial effusion Pericardial Effusion Heart Neoplasms Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 medicine Pericardium Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Pericardial fluid General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Effusion Positron emission tomography Positron-Emission Tomography Primary effusion lymphoma Radiology Sarcoma Radiopharmaceuticals business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical nuclear medicine. 31(1) |
| ISSN: | 0363-9762 |
| Popis: | We present the FDG PET images of a 49-year-old male AIDS patient with a history of Kaposi sarcoma who presented with increasing shortness of breath. The computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest showed a massive pericardial effusion, which was tapped. There was no other clinical or radiologic evidence (otherwise negative CT scan of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis) of lymphoma. A whole-body PET scan was performed after the intravenous administration of 11.0 mCi of F-18 FDG. The images showed physiological uptake in the myocardium, a photopenic defect around the heart corresponding to the pericardial effusion, lined by a hypermetabolic pericardium, consistent with neoplastic involvement. There was no other evidence of active neoplastic disease. Histopathologic analysis of the pericardial fluid showed findings characteristic of primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) and chemotherapy was started. |
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