A rare case of primary thymic Hodgkin lymphoma in an elderly patient detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT.
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serval:BIB_C2D4546CAE3A
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Case report (case report): feedback on an observation with a short commentary.
Collection
Publications
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Title
A rare case of primary thymic Hodgkin lymphoma in an elderly patient detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT.
Journal
Clinical nuclear medicine
ISSN
1536-0229 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0363-9762
Publication state
Published
Issued date
05/2013
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
38
Number
5
Pages
e236-8
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Case Reports ; Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
We report a rare case of thymic Hodgkin lymphoma that occurred in an elderly patient and detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT. A 77-year-old woman with fever of unknown origin underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT scanning, which showed an area of increased radiopharmaceutical uptake in a mediastinal mass corresponding to a thymic lesion at CT scan. On the basis of the PET/CT findings, the patient was referred to surgery with the clinical suspicious of a thymoma. Histological examination demonstrated the presence of a primary thymic Hodgkin lymphoma instead.
Keywords
Aged, Female, Fluorodeoxyglucose F18, Hodgkin Disease/diagnostic imaging, Hodgkin Disease/pathology, Humans, Multimodal Imaging, Positron-Emission Tomography, Thymus Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging, Thymus Neoplasms/pathology, Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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