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A Pilot Study of 18F-FLT PET/CT in Pediatric Lymphoma.

Danny L CostantiniReza ValiSusan McQuattieJeffrey ChanAngela PunnettShiela WeitzmanAmer ShammasMartin Charron
Published in: International journal of molecular imaging (2016)
We performed an observational pilot study of 18F-FLT PET/CT in pediatric lymphoma. Eight patients with equivocal 18F-FDG PET/CT underwent imaging with 18F-FLT PET/CT. No immediate adverse reactions to 18F-FLT were observed. Compared to 18F-FDG, 18F-FLT uptake was significantly higher in bone marrow and liver (18F-FLT SUV 8.6 ± 0.6 and 5.0 ± 0.3, versus 18F-FDG SUV 1.9 ± 0.1 and 3.4 ± 0.7, resp., p < 0.05). In total, 15 lesions were evaluated with average 18F-FDG and 18F-FLT SUVs of 2.6 ± 0.1 and 2.0 ± 0.4, respectively. Nonspecific uptake in reactive lymph nodes and thymus was observed. Future studies to assess the clinical utility of 18F-FLT PET/CT in pediatric lymphoma are planned.
Keyphrases
  • pet ct
  • acute myeloid leukemia
  • tyrosine kinase
  • positron emission tomography
  • bone marrow
  • diffuse large b cell lymphoma
  • lymph node
  • mass spectrometry
  • early stage
  • photodynamic therapy
  • rectal cancer