Follicular dendritic sarcoma within a focus of Castleman's disease. Serial FDG PET/CT in the follow up of recurrence with histopathologic confirmation REVISTA ESPANOLA DE MEDICINA NUCLEAR Iagaru, A., Mari, C., Gambhir, S. S. 2007; 26 (1): 40-45

Abstract

We report the case of a 30 year-old man with previous history of melanoma and new diagnoses of localized abdominal Castleman's disease with a focus of follicular dendritic sarcoma within the Castleman's tumor. He presented soon after with a single enlarged abdominal lymph node characterized and followed-up by FDG PET/CT as a low grade malignancy consistent with Castleman's recurrence. However, other imaging techniques raised the possibility of sarcoma/ melanoma recurrence. Final surgical resection allowed histological confirmation of the FDG PET/CT findings. To our knowledge, this is one of the few cases in the literature of Castleman's disease and follicular dendritic sarcoma association in the same focus. This is the first paper to our knowledge to use FDG PET/CT as the follow-up imaging tool for serial characterization of recurrence of Castleman's disease and follicular dendritic sarcoma. FDG PET/CT may be useful in the differentiation between Castleman's disease and malignancies associated with this disease.

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