Intramuscular Follicular Lymphoma

Clin Nucl Med. 2018 Sep;43(9):682-684. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002180.

Abstract

We present an interesting image of a painless growing mass of the right arm in a 76-year-old man. A musculoskeletal MRI of the right arm showed a 7.5 × 3-cm homogeneous, well-defined mass, elongated along the course of muscle fascias and independent of the adjacent bone. A core-needle biopsy was performed, and the diagnosis of low-grade follicular lymphoma was established. Intramuscular lymphoma should be integrated into the differential diagnosis of tumors surrounding neurovascular structures, alongside peripheral nerve tumors and soft tissue sarcoma. MRI and whole-body F-FDG PET/CT features provided useful information to refine differential diagnosis in this case.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
  • Humans
  • Lymphoma, Follicular / diagnostic imaging*
  • Lymphoma, Follicular / pathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography

Substances

  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18