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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Haematol. 2014 Nov 10;168(6):845–853. doi: 10.1111/bjh.13219

Figure 3. False-positive FDG-PET/CT study.

Figure 3

Figure 3

Patient 6 (20-year-old young man treated for Burkitt lymphoma. A) Diagnostic pelvic computerized tomography (CT) shows a residual pelvis mass (arrows). B) Axial positron emission tomography (PET)/CT shows the mass to have intense peripheral fluorodeoxyglucose avidity (arrow). The mass was resected and found to contain necroinflammatory tissue but no viable tumour on histopathological examination.