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Chemotherapy-induced pericarditis on F-18 FDG positron emission tomography scan
Steve B Losik1, Yana Studentsova, Donald Margouleff
1Northshore University Hospital, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Manhasset, New York 11030, USA.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|October 28, 2003
Abstract:
F-18 FDG positron emission tomography (PET) is a highly valuable imaging tool in evaluation and follow up of lymphoma and many other malignancies. Constrictive or effusive constrictive pericarditis is an uncommon complication of chemotherapy. The authors report a case in which pericardial FDG uptake was seen on a whole-body PET scan performed for posttreatment follow-up evaluation for a mantle cell lymphoma.