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Multifocal non-Hodgkin lymphoma in an infant with cardiac involvement: whole-body MR imaging

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Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is rare in infancy, and we present a case of aggressive NHL of T-cell lineage in an infant with multifocal bone, cardiac, mediastinal nodal, paranasal sinus, calvarial, and soft-tissue deposits on presentation that were detected on whole-body MRI.

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  1. Department of Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 110029, India

    Jyoti Kumar, Ashu Seith, Raju Sharma & Atin Kumar

  2. Department of Medical Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 110029, India

    Sameer Bakhshi

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Kumar, J., Seith, A., Bakhshi, S. et al. Multifocal non-Hodgkin lymphoma in an infant with cardiac involvement: whole-body MR imaging. Pediatr Radiol 37, 321–324 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-006-0390-0

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