| Literature DB >> 17053396 |
Kentaro Inoue1, Ken Okada, Hideo Harigae, Yasuyuki Taki, Ryoi Goto, Shigeo Kinomura, Shunsuke Kato, Tomohiro Kaneta, Hiroshi Fukuda.
Abstract
It is well known that hematopoietic cytokine stimulation can cause diffuse increase of FDG accumulation in bone marrow on PET imaging, which simulates that seen in patients with bone marrow metastases. However, diffuse bone marrow FDG uptake can be caused by other etiologies. We report 2 patients who did not have a history of hematopoietic cytokine stimulation. The FDG PET images showed diffuse bone marrow FDG uptake, and the patients were diagnosed as having myelodysplastic syndromes. These cases demonstrate that diffuse FDG uptake by bone marrow can suggest neoplastic disease of the hematopoietic tissues.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 17053396 DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000242685.55001.67
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Nucl Med ISSN: 0363-9762 Impact factor: 7.794