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| Year : 2016 | Volume
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Detection of diffuse infiltrative primary hepatic lymphoma on FDG PET-CT: Hallmarks of hepatic superscan
Sonia Mahajan, Shefali Kalra, Madhavi Chawla, Pankaj Dougall
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Max Superspeciality Hospital, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Sonia Mahajan
16/10B, Tilak Nagar, New Delhi - 110 018
India
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DOI: 10.4103/1450-1147.167581 PMID: 27134567 
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Primary hepatic lymphoma (PHL) is an extremely rare entity with scarce information in evidence-based literature. Few case reports have described the role of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography (FDG PET-CT) in the diagnosing and staging of PHL. We report the case of a 78-year-old man with PHL who initially presented with weight loss and nonspecific fatigue. FDG PET-CT proved to be a beneficial tool in arriving at the diagnosis of this patient with nonspecific clinical presentation and also in the staging of PHL. Physiological uptake of FDG in the liver can be a potential cause of misinterpretation in such cases. Hence, knowing the imaging hallmarks can increase the accuracy in PET image interpretation. |
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