A child with Burkitt lymphoma with pleural, peritoneal, mesenteric, omental, and renal involvement: diagnostics by FDG PET/CT

Clin Nucl Med. 2011 Jul;36(7):612-5. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e318217af84.

Abstract

A 7-year-old boy presented with increasing abdominal girth and abdominal pain. Abdominal ultrasound revealed a pleural effusion and ascites. Computed tomography (CT) demonstrated a mass involving the peritoneum, mesentery, and omentum with marked ascites, mesenteric nodules, and renal involvement. Positron emission tomography (PET)/CT scan identified additional tumor within the pleura. PET/CT imaging was helpful in identifying the appropriate pleural mass biopsy site in this patient with Burkitt lymphoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy
  • Burkitt Lymphoma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Child
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
  • Humans
  • Kidney / diagnostic imaging
  • Kidney / pathology*
  • Male
  • Mesentery / diagnostic imaging
  • Mesentery / pathology*
  • Omentum / diagnostic imaging
  • Omentum / pathology*
  • Peritoneum / diagnostic imaging
  • Peritoneum / pathology*
  • Pleura / diagnostic imaging
  • Pleura / pathology*
  • Positron-Emission Tomography
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18