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March / April 2013, Volume 19, Issue 2, Page(s) 130-133
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| Primary penile lymphoma: the use of PET-CT for accurate staging and response monitoring |
| Sellam Karunanithi, Punit Sharma, Niraj Naswa, Ramya Soundararajan, Tushar Mohapatra, Arun Malhotra, Chandrasekhar Bal, Rakesh Kumar |
| Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India |
| DOI: 10.4261/1305-3825.DIR.6253-12.1 |
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Primary penile lymphoma is an extremely rare neoplasm. We present a case of 63-year-old man with painless diffuse pe- nile swelling and retention of urine. Biopsy from the penile swelling demonstrated CD20+ diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Staging was performed using fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) and revealed a FDG avid penile mass with enlarged and FDG avid multiple inguinal and aortocaval lymph nodes. A follow-up FDG PET-CT scan after eight cycles of combina- tion chemotherapy showed complete remission of the dis- ease. Thus, FDG PET-CT should be integrated in management protocols of rare primary penile lymphoma. |
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