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SUBMITTER: Chandra P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5482015 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul-Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chandra Piyush P Dhake Sanket S Purandare Nilendu N Agrawal Archi A Shah Sneha S Rangarajan Venkatesh V
Indian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India 20170701 3
<h4>Objective</h4>Granulocytic sarcoma (GS) is a rare extramedullary manifestation in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), which can precede the diagnosis or occur in the posttreatment setting. Unlike its established role in other hematological malignancies like Hodgkin's on non-Hodgkin's disease, the exact role of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in AML with or without GS remains to be defined.<h4>Materials and methods</h4>We retrospectively reviewed PET/CT scans ...[more]