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Title
Positron emission tomography in mantle cell lymphoma
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Abstract
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a rare but aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtype with a poor prognosis; most patients relapse despite initial response to therapy. Response was traditionally evaluated by computed tomography (CT), but the introduction of [18F]Fluorine-Deoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) changed response assessment in aggressive lymphoma. However, the value of PET-evaluation in MCL has not been studied yet. Therefore, PET- and CT-findings were investigated in 37 patients with MCL (239 scans) and categorised following standardised response criteria for CT-evaluation (IWC-criteria), PET-evaluation (EORTC-criteria) and combined PET/CT-evaluation (IWC + PET-criteria). FDG-PET showed a high sensitivity for the detection of deposits of MCL and a higher FDG-uptake was shown in patients with the more aggressive blastoid-variant of MCL versus common MCL. However, routine use of PET for end-of-treatment response assessment in MCL cannot be recommended because CT- and PET-based designation systems had equivalent prognostic value. PET-based end-of-treatment response assessment only provided additional information over CT-based response assessment in a subpopulation of patients with highly FDG-avid MCL. PET allowed early detection of preclinical relapse during post-therapy surveillance, but the therapeutic consequences of such information are currently unclear.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Leukemia and lymphoma. - Chur, 1989, currens
Publication
Chur : 2008
ISSN
1042-8194 [print]
1029-2403 [online]
DOI
10.1080/10428190802216707
Volume/pages
49 :9 (2008) , p. 1693-1701
ISI
000259240500010
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UAntwerpen
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