From the Departments of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT.
Medical Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Clin Nucl Med. 2020 Sep;45(9):705-706. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000003156.
Amyloidosis is a disorder resulting from the deposition of fibrillary protein in the extracellular tissue and can be classified into primary, secondary, familial, and senile types. Isolated lymph node amyloidosis without any other organ involvement is very rarely seen in clinical parlance, and diagnosis remains very challenging owing to nonspecific imaging findings. We present a case of 50-year-old man with lymphadenopathy, which was later confirmed to be amyloidosis on biopsy and serum-free light chain assay with efficacious use of F-FDG PET/CT for response assessment to bortezomib, cyclophosphamide, and dexamethasone.
淀粉样变性是一种由于细胞外组织中纤维状蛋白沉积而导致的疾病,可分为原发性、继发性、家族性和老年性等类型。临床上很少见到孤立性淋巴结淀粉样变性而无其他器官受累,由于影像学表现不具有特异性,诊断仍然极具挑战性。我们报告了一例 50 岁男性,有淋巴结病,随后通过活检和血清游离轻链检测证实为淀粉样变性,在硼替佐米、环磷酰胺和地塞米松治疗中,使用 F-FDG PET/CT 进行疗效评估。