title: 18F-FDG PET/CT in Extranodal Burkitt Lymphoma.
abstract: Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is a poorly differentiated non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma, more frequent in children than in adults. The extranodal debut of the disease is rare. We report a 43-year-old male patient with history of dyspnea. Burkitt lymphoma diagnosis was reached after biopsy of a pleural lesion. An initial staging F-FDG-PET/CT revealed large high-uptake lymphatic clusters in mediastinum, lung hilum, and extranodal involvement in pleura, pericardium, periphery of liver and spleen, all the omentum and peritoneum down to the pelvic floor, and bone marrow infiltration.
authors.affiliation: From the Departments of *Nuclear Medicine and †Haematology, Virgen del Rocío Universitary Hospital, Seville, Spain.
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jiménez Granero
authors.forename: Francisco Javier
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: García Gómez
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ruiz Mercado
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Borrego Dorado
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002051:Burkitt Lymphoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18