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Ali Gümüş1, Merve Nida Calderon Tobar, Kara Gonca Gedik
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey.
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Secondary leukemia can develop as a recognized side effect of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. In our case, an asymptomatic 61-year-old man was diagnosed with mixed-type Hodgkin lymphoma and underwent treatment with brentixumab-vedotin in 2021. Lately, the 18 F-FDG PET/CT scan we performed due to symptoms, revealed hepatomegaly and a diffusely increased FDG uptake in the liver. Following bone marrow biopsy revealed AML and the scan was consistent with hepatic superscan.
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