American Burkittʼs Lymphoma of the Head and Neck: Evaluation With Serial FDG-PET

F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) is known to be a noninvasive, safe, and useful diagnostic tool for staging, restaging, and follow up of neoplastic disease. This report is concerned with a 32-year-old man with a history of rare American Burkittʼs lymphoma of the head...

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Veröffentlicht in:Clinical nuclear medicine 2004-10, Vol.29 (10), p.646-648
Hauptverfasser: Chander, Subhash, Webster, Glenn C, Zingas, Alkis P, Zak, Imad T, Joyrich, Richard N, Zerin, J Michael, Bloom, David A, Littrup, Peter J
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Zusammenfassung:F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) is known to be a noninvasive, safe, and useful diagnostic tool for staging, restaging, and follow up of neoplastic disease. This report is concerned with a 32-year-old man with a history of rare American Burkittʼs lymphoma of the head and neck. The patient was evaluated with FDG-PET for staging and posttherapy follow up. The initial PET showed intense accumulation of FDG in the right side of the face indicating malignancy. A posttherapy follow-up PET showed a slight decrease in the FDG accumulation in the tumor, suggesting partial response to chemotherapy. This case shows that FDG-PET continues to be an invaluable diagnostic tool in the evaluation of lymphomas.
ISSN:0363-9762
1536-0229
DOI:10.1097/00003072-200410000-00014