Clinical nuclear medicine
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Clinical nuclear medicine · Dec 2018
Predictive Value of FDG PET/CT Versus Bone Marrow Biopsy in Pediatric Lymphoma.
The aim of this study was to explore the positive predictive value and negative predictive value of FDG PET/CT. The prognostic impact of tumor burden of bone marrow infiltrates was diagnosed by FDG PET/CT at initial presentation. ⋯ FDG PET/CT has optimum negative predictive value compared with BMB in detection of bone marrow infiltrations in pediatric lymphoma with upstaging cases missed with BMB. Prognostic impact of BMI based on the 5-point scoring system reveals that the main influence is presence or absence of BMI rather than its tumor burden.