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[en] Primary pediatric bone lymphoma is a rare form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Unlike nodal forms of lymphoma, imaging abnormalities in lymphoma of bone do not resolve rapidly in conjunction with treatment and radiologic findings can remain abnormal for years, making it difficult to evaluate treatment response. To evaluate the utility of imaging in assessment of patients with primary pediatric bone lymphoma. At our institution between 2004 and 2013, six cases of pathology-proven primary pediatric bone lymphoma were diagnosed. Retrospective chart review was performed to assess imaging utilization. Our data were qualitatively compared with existing literature to construct an algorithm for imaging patients with primary lymphoma of bone. Imaging evaluation of patients with primary pediatric bone lymphoma was highly variable at our institution. Conventional imaging was routinely used to evaluate response to treatment, despite lack of appreciable osseous change. Imaging in the absence of symptoms did not alter clinical management. Only positron emission tomography CT (PET/CT) proved capable of demonstrating imaging changes from the pretreatment to the post-treatment scans that were consistent with the clinical response to treatment. Surveillance imaging is likely unnecessary in patients with a known diagnosis of pediatric lymphoma of bone. Pretreatment and post-treatment PET/CT is likely sufficient to assess response. There is little data to support the use of interim and surveillance PET/CT. (orig.)
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Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00247-016-3597-8
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AGE GROUPS, ANIMALS, ANTIMETABOLITES, BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BODY, COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY, DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, DISEASES, DRUGS, EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY, FLUORINE ISOTOPES, HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES, ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES, ISOTOPES, LABELLED COMPOUNDS, LIGHT NUCLEI, LIMBS, MAMMALS, MAN, MATERIALS, MATHEMATICAL LOGIC, MEDICINE, NANOSECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, NEOPLASMS, NUCLEI, ODD-ODD NUCLEI, ORGANS, PRIMATES, PROCESSING, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, RADIOISOTOPES, SKELETON, TOMOGRAPHY, VERTEBRATES
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