High diagnostic yield of splenic core biopsy in patients with pyrexia of unknown origin

Br J Haematol. 2021 Apr;193(2):e15-e18. doi: 10.1111/bjh.17325. Epub 2021 Mar 13.

Yee Ting Nicole Yim¹, Gabriel Wallis^{1

2}, Jawad Saeed³, Stefan Voo^{4

5}, Irfan Kayani⁶, Zahir Amin⁷, Ian Proctor⁸, Christopher McNamara⁹, Michael Brown^{1

2}

¹ Infection, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, UK.
² Infection, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
³ Department of Haematology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁴ Nuclear Medicine, University College London Institute of Nuclear Medicine, London, UK.
⁵ BIomedical Research Centre, Infection, Inflammation and Immunotherapy Division, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁶ Department of Nuclear Medicine, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁷ Department of Radiology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁸ Cellular Pathology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁹ Haematology, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK.

No abstract available

Keywords: Biopsy; Diagnostic yield; FDG PET-CT; Pyrexia of unknown origin; Spleen.

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