title: A rare case of primary thymic Hodgkin lymphoma in an elderly patient detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT.
abstract: We report a rare case of thymic Hodgkin lymphoma that occurred in an elderly patient and detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT. A 77-year-old woman with fever of unknown origin underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT scanning, which showed an area of increased radiopharmaceutical uptake in a mediastinal mass corresponding to a thymic lesion at CT scan. On the basis of the PET/CT findings, the patient was referred to surgery with the clinical suspicious of a thymoma. Histological examination demonstrated the presence of a primary thymic Hodgkin lymphoma instead.
authors: Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy. giorgiomednuc@libero.it
authors: Giorgio
authors: G
authors: Treglia
authors: Filippo
authors: F
authors: Lococo
authors: Gianluigi
authors: G
authors: Petrone
authors: Antonella
authors: A
authors: Stefanelli
authors: Giulia
authors: G
authors: Carnassale
authors: Maria Lucia
authors: ML
authors: Calcagni
authors: Pierluigi
authors: P
authors: Granone
authors: Alessandro
authors: A
authors: Giordano
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18