title: 18F-FDG PET/CT Imaging of Burkitt Lymphoma Presenting With Unusual Muscle Involvement.
abstract: Extranodal involvement is more common with Burkitt lymphoma (BL) than other subtypes of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in childhood. According to our knowledge, there are rare cases in the literature about muscle involvement of BL, and its F-FDG PET/CT findings were not well defined. We report a 6-year-old girl with a histopathologic diagnosis of BL and referred for staging with PET/CT. FDG-avid abdominal lymph nodes and diffuse involvements of right quadriceps muscle were demonstrated.
authors.affiliation: From the Departments of *Nuclear Medicine, †Pediatric Hematology, and ‡Pathology, Trakya University Medical Faculty, Edirne, Turkey.
authors.forename: Burcu
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dirlik Serim
authors.forename: Tuba
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gurleyen Eren
authors.forename: Fulya
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Oz Puyan
authors.forename: Gülay
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Durmus Altun
mesh_terms: D002051:Burkitt Lymphoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000473:pathology; D000072078:Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18