Primary spinal epidural non-hodgkin lymphoma demonstrated by FDG PET/CT

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 487-489

  Ho, Linh ^a   Valenzuela, David ^a   Negahban, Ali ^a   Wassef, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; FDG; non Hodgkin lymphoma; PET; spinal epidural

Indexed keywords

CD103 ANTIGEN; CD20 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMINECTOMY; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY TUMOR; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; THORACIC SPINE;

ADULT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953975087     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181e05f6e     Document Type: Article

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