title: Diffuse skeletal muscles uptake of [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose on positron emission tomography in primary muscle peripheral T-cell lymphoma.
abstract: A 40-year-old man presented with weakness of neck extensor muscles. Cervical magnetic resonance imaging showed high-intensity areas in muscles of the left lateral cervical region on T2-weighted images. Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography scan demonstrated striking fluorodeoxyglucose uptake by multiple skeletal muscles of the neck, chest, and abdominal region. Muscle biopsy demonstrated peripheral T-cell lymphoma, unspecified. The diagnosis was primary skeletal muscle peripheral T-cell lymphoma. Primary skeletal muscle non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of T-cell immunophenotype is extremely rare and fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography demonstrated striking fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in multiple skeletal muscles and served as a quite useful modality for the diagnosis of this patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu University, Japan. yutanaka-gif@umin.net
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Jun'ichi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Megumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Koumura
authors.forename: Takeo
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authors.lastname: Sakurai
authors.forename: Akio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Isao
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hozumi
authors.forename: Yuichiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hatano
authors.forename: Yoshinobu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hirose
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takami
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Senji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kasahara
authors.forename: Hisashi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tsurumi
authors.forename: Hisataka
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Moriwaki
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authors.lastname: Inuzuka
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001692:Biological Transport; D001706:Biopsy; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D016130:Immunophenotyping; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D016411:Lymphoma, T-Cell, Peripheral / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18