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Reactive follicular lymphoid infiltrate: A new condition to exclude in patients with PET positivity inside the heart
verfasst von:
Marco Di Eusanio, MD, PhD, Cristina Nanni, MD, Pierluigi Zinzani, MD, Francesco Bacci, MD, Ornella Leone, MD, Luigi Lovato, MD, Sebastiano Castrovinci, MD, Mariano Cefarelli, MD, Paolo Ortolani, MD, Claudio Rapezzi, MD, Roberto Di Bartolomeo, MD
Erschienen in:
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
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Ausgabe 2/2014
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Excerpt
Different potential neoplastic conditions in the heart cavities should be considered when a FDG-PET scan shows a positivity on the cardiac tissue. Primary cardiac lymphoma,
1 post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders,
2 and post-cardiac transplants
3 represent the most frequent conditions related to these data. In all cases, it is mandatory to submit the patient to a local biopsy of the PET+ lesion to have a histopathologic diagnosis. …