Publication Date:
2019
Abstract:
Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) is an aggressive lymphoma sub-type with high 18F-FDG avidity, but no well established evidence of PET/CT's role in treatment evaluation or prognosis is currently available. The prognostic role of visual analysis and Deauville criteria for BL have already been demonstrated, while the potential usefulness of semi-quantitative PET/CT features remains unclear, especially the value of the rate of reduction in metabolic tumor volume (MTV) and total lesion glycolysis (TLG). The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate whether ΔMTV and ΔTLG can predict treatment response at the end of therapy and prognosis in BL.
CRIS type:
1.1 Articolo in rivista
Keywords:
18F-FDG PET/CT; Burkitt lymphoma; MTV; Prognosis; TLG
List of contributors:
Albano, Domenico; Re, Alessandro; Tucci, Alessandra; Giubbini, Raffaele; Bertagna, Francesco
Published in: