title: Burkitt Lymphoma Presented as Acute Lower Back Pain and Revealed by 18F-NaF PET/CT.
abstract: A 15-year-old man with acute lower back pain for 7 days underwent F-NaF PET/CT to determine the cause of his symptoms. The PET images revealed irregularly increased F activity in the L1 vertebral body without definite sclerotic changes on CT. However, the corresponding CT images revealed an adjacent paravertebral mass extending into the vertebral foramen without elevated activity on PET. A diagnosis of Burkitt lymphoma was made after pathological examination.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Nuclear Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sichuan Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Wenlu
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Yue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Zhanwen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cai
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002051:Burkitt Lymphoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005462:Fluorine Radioisotopes; D006801:Humans; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D012969:Sodium Fluoride; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D005462:Fluorine Radioisotopes; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D012969:Sodium Fluoride