Taiki Ishida, Michiaki Sato, Yoshimasa Kamoda, Masako Hirao, Hiromitsu Iizuka, Michiko Kida, Hirotsugu Hashimoto, Sakiko Miura, Teppei Morikawa, Kensuke Usuki
A 44-year-old female was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma (FL), grade 3A stage III, by right cervical lymph node biopsy at the age of 43 years. The patient chose to not receive the treatment despite the high tumor burden. The patient came back after 18 months with respiratory distress and had systemic infiltration and pleural effusion. Positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) showed fluorine-18 deoxyglucose accumulation with maximum standardized uptake value ranging from 10 to 18 in bone marrow, liver, spleen, lung, and systemic lymph nodes (cervical, supraclavicular, infraclavicular, axillary, mediastinal, hilar, para-aortic, iliac, and inguinal)...
2022: [Rinshō Ketsueki] the Japanese Journal of Clinical Hematology