PET/CT imaging in management of concomitant Hodgkin lymphoma and tuberculosis - a problem solver tool

Nina Jehanno; Thibaut Cassou-Mounat; Anne Vincent-Salomon; Marie Luporsi; Manel Bedoui; Frédérique Kuhnowski

doi:10.1002/ccr3.1248

PET/CT imaging in management of concomitant Hodgkin lymphoma and tuberculosis - a problem solver tool

Clin Case Rep. 2017 Nov 29;6(1):232-234. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.1248. eCollection 2018 Jan.

Authors

Nina Jehanno¹, Thibaut Cassou-Mounat¹, Anne Vincent-Salomon², Marie Luporsi¹, Manel Bedoui³, Frédérique Kuhnowski³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine Institut Curie Paris France.
² Department of Pathology Institut Curie Paris France.
³ Department of Hematology Institut Curie Paris France.

Abstract

Infectious lymph nodes mimicking lymphoma is challenging for accurate staging. Although ¹⁸F-FDG is a nonspecific tracer accumulating not only in tumor cells but also in inflammatory tissues, the metabolic features and uptake kinetics give valuable information: ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT appears as a useful problem solver tool in ambiguous situation.

Keywords: 18F‐FDG; Hodgkin lymphoma; PET/CT; tuberculosis.