The clinical utility of 18F-FDG PET-CT for detection of bone marrow infiltration in lymphoma / 国际肿瘤学杂志

ABSTRACT

Bone marrow infiltration in lymphoma is crucial to the disease diagnosis,staging,treatment options and prognostic evaluation.Although bone marrow biopsy is the main detecting method,it has high false negative rate.At present,18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography (18 F-FDG PET-CT) technology which is integrating morphological characteristics with metabolic function provides a new way for the diagnosis,staging and prognostic evaluation of bone marrow infiltration in lymphoma due to its advantages of high sensitivity,high specificity and functional image.