PET - Hodgkins Lymphoma

 

20-year-old female with Hodgkins disease.MR found a metastatic lesion in the mediastinum. PET ordered to assess the lesion after the first round of chemotherapy.Whole-body FDG scan found the mediastinal lesion to still be hypermetabolic after therapy. In addition, a focus of FDG uptake was found on the top of the liver.The PET results led to a second stronger round of chemotherapy. Another PET after the second series found the hypermetabolic lesions were eliminated.

 

Courtesy of Giorgio Ferlin, M.D. · Ospedale di Castelfranco Veneto - TV - Italy. And CTI, Inc. SIEMENS - CTI