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- Title
- Gallium-67 uptake in histological variants of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma : a correlative study
- Related
- Open nuclear medicine journal, Vol. 4, (2012), p.1-4
- DOI
- 10.2174/1876388X01204010001
- Publisher
- Bentham Science Open
- Date
- 2012
- Author/Creator
- Iqbal, Basit
- Author/Creator
- Currie, Geoffrey M
- Author/Creator
- Bashir, Humayun
- Author/Creator
- Afzal, Uzma
- Author/Creator
- Nawaz, M. Khalid
- Author/Creator
- Mansoor, Samina
- Author/Creator
- Wheat, Janelle M
- Author/Creator
- Younis, Muhammad Numair
- Description
- Introduction: The malignant lymphomas are the fifth most common neoplasm in both men and women. Staging, re-staging and treatment response evaluation pose a difficult task in many patients of lymphomas. Histological variants in both Hodgkin's and Non-Hodgkin's types of lymphoma greatly affect the response to treatment and overall prognosis. Objective: This study was conducted to correlate the degree of abnormal Gallium-67 uptake with the histological variants of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. This project was a part of the study to see the ability of Gallium-67 scintigraphy to predict the response to chemotherapy early in the course of therapy. Material & Methods: 65 patients were included in the study with a mean age of 25 years. All patients had undergone medical imagi ng, bone marrow biopsy and histopathology. Results: Sixty-five patients were classified according to the REAL classification. 11 patients were of T-cell type, 50 were of B-cell type and 4 were anaplastic. 46 showed gallium-67 uptake in the lesions, whereas 19 (29.2%) had no discernable Gallium-67 uptake. Conclusion: There was no correlation between histological sub-types and Gallium-67 uptake in all sub-types of NHL.
- Description
- 4 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- Ga-67 scintigraphy
- Subject Keyword
- Gallium-67
- Subject Keyword
- Lymphoma imaging
- Subject Keyword
- NHL
- Subject Keyword
- Non-hodgkin's lymphoma
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Australian School of Advanced Medicine
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/176056
- Identifier
- ISSN:1876-388X
- Identifier
- mq_res-ext-2-s2.0-84859479763
- Language
- eng
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