| Literature DB >> 24473428 |
Vesna Ilic1, Vincent Dunet, Maja Beck-Popovic, Ariane Boubaker.
Abstract
Positron emission tomography (PET)/CT plays a major role in staging, assessing response to treatment and during follow-up of paediatric Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL). Owing to high sensitivity to detect viable tumoural tissue, negative PET/CT is highly predictive of survival. However, (18)F-FDG is not specific for malignant disease and may concentrate in numerous benign/inflammatory lesions that may cause 'false-positive' results and follow-up PET/CT studies should be interpreted with caution. We report a case of pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour, which developed during follow-up in a young patient with complete remission of a stage IIB HL and was fully treated with surgical resection.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24473428 PMCID: PMC3912378 DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-202491
Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMJ Case Rep ISSN: 1757-790X