Jaafari Ayoub, Rizzo Ornella, Mansour Sohaïb, Chbabou Anas, Trepant Anne-Laure, Attou Rachid, Mathey Celine
Department of Nuclear Medicine, H.U.B Erasme Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
Department of Haematology, H.U.B Bordet Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
Front Nucl Med. 2024 Jul 15;4:1402552. doi: 10.3389/fnume.2024.1402552. eCollection 2024.
Primary bone lymphoma of the spine (PBL) is a rare entity that may be misdiagnosed due to its atypical location and clinical and imaging features mimicking certain pathologies as infectious processes, which complicates and delays diagnosis. Our case reports a patient in her sixties who had been suffering from chronic low back pain for a year, and had gradually started to develop cruralgia. She underwent a blood sample, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (F-FDG-PET/CT) which revealed inflammatory syndrome, and an image of spondylodiscitis of the lumbar spine associated with a morphological and metabolical widespread invasion posteriorly suggesting epiduritis. No other lesions were found on the rest of the body. Neurosurgical management was performed and a biopsy was made. Histological results showed aggressive and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, suggesting a diagnosis of PBL. This case highlights the first case of spondylodiscitis mimicking PBL in the lumbar spine, the intricacies of the diagnostic work-up, and the complexity of discriminating with an infectious process in the spine, as both have a similar, non-specific clinical presentation, while morphological and metabolic findings can be alike.
脊柱原发性骨淋巴瘤(PBL)是一种罕见的疾病,由于其非典型的位置以及临床和影像学特征类似于某些病理情况(如感染性病变),可能会被误诊,这使得诊断变得复杂并导致延迟诊断。我们的病例报告了一位六十多岁的患者,她患有慢性下背痛一年,并逐渐开始出现腿痛。她接受了血液样本检查、磁共振成像(MRI)和正电子发射断层扫描(F-FDG-PET/CT),结果显示有炎症综合征,以及腰椎椎体间盘炎的影像,伴有后方形态学和代谢性广泛侵犯,提示硬脊膜外炎。身体其他部位未发现其他病变。进行了神经外科处理并做了活检。组织学结果显示为侵袭性弥漫性大B细胞淋巴瘤,提示诊断为PBL。该病例突出了首例腰椎椎体间盘炎酷似PBL的病例、诊断检查的复杂性以及与脊柱感染性病变鉴别的复杂性,因为两者具有相似的非特异性临床表现,而形态学和代谢结果可能相似。