Bilateral vagus nerve neurolymphomatosis diagnosed using PET/CT and diffusion-weighted MRI
| Autor: | Boasquevisque Ets, Moreira de Souza La, Pedras Fv, Andrade Cv, Boasquevisque Em, Boasquevisque Gs, Guidoni J, Gonçalves Pg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Vagus Nerve Diseases Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Nervous System Neoplasms Multimodal Imaging Cervical lymphadenopathy Biopsy medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Aged PET-CT medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Magnetic resonance imaging General Medicine medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging Vagus nerve Lymphoma medicine.anatomical_structure Peripheral nervous system Positron-Emission Tomography Radiology Lymphoma Large B-Cell Diffuse medicine.symptom business Tomography X-Ray Computed Brachial plexus |
| Zdroj: | Clinical nuclear medicine. 37(9) |
| ISSN: | 1536-0229 |
| Popis: | In neurolymphomatosis, malignant lymphocytes infiltrate the peripheral nervous system in the presence of a known or unknown hematological malignancy. This report describes the findings of diffusion-weighted MRI and F-FDG PET/CT in a 65-year-old man with hoarseness. Results revealed a mass with restricted diffusion on diffusion-weighted imaging in the right visceral vascular space, increased uptake of F-FDG, and other masses at distant peripheral nerves. Restaging PET/CT showed involvement of the right brachial plexus and right sciatic nerve. Biopsy and immunohistochemistry of the right vagus nerve and cervical lymphadenopathy revealed a diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. |
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