A rare case of primary thymic Hodgkin lymphoma in an elderly patient detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT.

Giorgio Treglia, Filippo Lococo, Gianluigi Petrone, Antonella Stefanelli, Giulia Carnassale, Maria Lucia Calcagni, Pierluigi Granone, Alessandro Giordano

Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy. giorgiomednuc@libero.it

Clinical nuclear medicine 2013 May

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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.

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Giorgio Treglia, Filippo Lococo, Gianluigi Petrone, Antonella Stefanelli, Giulia Carnassale, Maria Lucia Calcagni, Pierluigi Granone, Alessandro Giordano. A rare case of primary thymic Hodgkin lymphoma in an elderly patient detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT. Clinical nuclear medicine. 2013 May;38(5):e236-8