[The role of PET scan in the investigation of the lymphatic spreading of Hodgkin's disease]. / A PET szerepe a Hodgkin-kór nyirokterjedésének vizsgálatában.
Orv Hetil
; 143(21 Suppl 3): 1268-72, 2002 May 26.
Article
en Hu
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12077912
ABSTRACT
The authors investigated the role of PET, as a non-invasive diagnostic method, in the analysis of lymphatic spreading of Hodgkin's disease (HD). Whole-body FDG scans were carried out in 71 patients along with [11C]-methionine examinations, if necessitated by inconclusive FDG results. Based on these findings involvement-frequencies were calculated for each lymphatic region. The three most frequently involved lymphatic regions were the mediastinum (83.1%), the left cervical and left supraclavicular regions (78.9%) and the right cervical and right supraclavicular regions (76.1%). These data support the hypothesis that HD originates from the cervical or supraclavicular regions and reaches the distant sites by basically retrograde spreading in a non-random manner. The appropriate values of site involvement-rate were compared with those obtained by other authors based on pathologic staging and a good correlation was found. The high level of correspondence between these involvement-frequencies supported the general validity (i.e. valid for both treated and untreated cases) of the principles governing lymphatic spreading of HD.
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Bases de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Enfermedad de Hodgkin
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Tomografía Computarizada de Emisión
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Metástasis Linfática
Límite:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
Hu
Revista:
Orv Hetil
Año:
2002
Tipo del documento:
Article