Scintigraphic detection of a disseminated synovial lymphoma in a postrenal transplant patient.
Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease is a recognized complication of immunosuppressive therapy, however, articular lymphomas involving the synovlum are very rare. Disseminated synovial lymphoma of the knee with hepatic involvement in a patient after renal transplant was suggested on bone/gallium scintigraphy and confirmed by synovial biopsy. Gallium scanning thus was instrumental in the evaluation, staging, and proper treatment of this rare condition.
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Division of Nuclear Medicine, Danbury Hospital, CT 06811, USA.
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Johns
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D000328:Adult; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000009:adverse effects; D001706:Biopsy; D016572:Cyclosporine / Q000009:adverse effects; D005260:Female; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D006801:Humans; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents / Q000009:adverse effects; D007592:Joint Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011241:Prednisone / Q000009:adverse effects; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013583:Synovial Membrane / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*
D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents; D016572:Cyclosporine; D011241:Prednisone