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The Role of PET/CT Scan in Primary Gastric Lymphomas

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Primary gastric non-Hodgkin lymphomas (PG-NHL) are localized in the stomach, with or without perigastric and/or abdominal lymph node involvement, and represent 20–30 % of all primary extranodal NHL. Any histological subtype can arise in the stomach, but the main two histological subtypes of PG-NHL are diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and MALT NHL which represent 60 % and 35 % of the cases, respectively. Helicobacter pylori infection has been implicated in the pathogenesis of PG MALT NHL, but its role in gastric DLBCL is controversial [6]. The role of fluorine-18-2-flouoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG-PET) scan has been well established only in PG DLBCL while its use is controversial for PG MALT NHL. In this chapter we provide (18F-FDG-PET) scan images from patients with PG NHL and we discuss the role of (18F-FDG-PET) scan in diagnosis and evaluation of response in this type of lymphomas.

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  1. 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Propaedeutic, Hematology Unit, “Attikon” University General Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Sotirios G. Papageorgiou MD, PhD

  2. Department of CT-MRI and PET/CT, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Vasiliki P. Filippi

  3. Department of Nuclear Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Sofia N. Chatziioannou

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  1. Hygeia and Mitera Hospital, Athens, Greece

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  2. Hygeia Hospital, Medical Oncology Department, Athens, Greece

    Paris A. Kosmidis

  3. National & Kapodistrian University, Radiology (emeritus), Athens, Greece

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Papageorgiou, S.G., Filippi, V.P., Chatziioannou, S.N. (2016). The Role of PET/CT Scan in Primary Gastric Lymphomas. In: Andreou, J., Kosmidis, P., Gouliamos, A. (eds) PET/CT in Lymphomas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27380-8_14

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