Diagnosis of heterotopic bone marrow in the mediastinum using 52Fe and positron emission tomography.
A patient with hereditary spherocytosis was admitted with mediastinal masses on the chest X-ray. 52Fe and positron emission tomography (PET) showed uptake of 52Fe in the masses and established the diagnosis of thoracic extramedullary hematopoiesis.
Borgies
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Department of Hematology, Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc, University of Louvain Medical School, Brussels, Belgium.
Ferrant
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A
Leners
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N
Michaux
J L
JL
Bol
A
A
Michel
C
C
Cogneau
M
M
Sokal
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G
D000368:Aged; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006411:Hematopoiesis, Extramedullary; D006801:Humans; D007504:Iron Radioisotopes; D008297:Male; D008482:Mediastinum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
D007504:Iron Radioisotopes