Not all that shines is cancer: pulmonary cryptococcosis mimicking lymphoma in [(18)] F fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography

We report of a case of pulmonary cryptococcosis mimicking lymphoma in a positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) scan. A 62-year old man with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma had complete resolution of abdominal and pulmonary lesions after three cycles of rituximab-based chemotherapy (R-CHOP). However, F...

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Main Authors: Nelson Hamerschlak, Jacyr Pasternak, Jairo Wagner, Guilherme Fleury Perini
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein
Colecção:Einstein (São Paulo)
Assuntos:
positron-emission tomography
lymphoma, non-hodgkin
cryptococcosis
lung diseases
cryptococcus neoformans
case reports
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