1. 18F-FDG-PET findings of rare case of nonsecretory plasmablastic myeloma.
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Kaibara H, Kaida H, Ishibashi M, Kurata S, Otsubo K, Fujimoto K, Uchida M, Abe T, Kobayashi M, Doi R, Kunou Y, Okamura T, Oshima K, Hayabuchi N, Kaibara, Hiroko, Kaida, Hayato, Ishibashi, Masatoshi, Kurata, Seiji, Otsubo, Korenori, and Fujimoto, Kiminori
- Abstract
A 61-year-old woman presented with pancytopenia and underwent a bone marrow biopsy. The patient was diagnosed with nonsecretory myeloma (plasmablastic type) based on both the bone marrow biopsy findings and her laboratory data. Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography ((18)F-FDG-PET) was performed prior to chemotherapy showing diffuse bone marrow uptake, splenic uptake, and focal uptake of the right anterior chest wall. The patient underwent an (18)F-FDG-PET examination to evaluate the curative effects after three cycles of chemotherapy, and no abnormal uptake on (18)F-FDG-PET was found. Bone marrow biopsy to evaluate the curative effect showed no viable tumor cells. We present a rare case of nonsecretory plasmablastic myeloma detected by (18)F-FDG-PET. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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