A Case of Chronic Neutrophilic Leukemia Incidentally Detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT

Miju Cheon; Jang Yoo; Hae Su Kim; Eunsin Bae

doi:10.3390/diagnostics11040654

A Case of Chronic Neutrophilic Leukemia Incidentally Detected by ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT

Diagnostics (Basel). 2021 Apr 5;11(4):654. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics11040654.

Authors

Miju Cheon¹, Jang Yoo¹, Hae Su Kim², Eunsin Bae³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Veterans Health Service Medical Center, 61 Jinhwangdoro-gil 53, Gangdong-gu, Seoul 05368, Korea.
² Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Veterans Health Service Medical Center, 61 Jinhwangdoro-gil 53, Gangdong-gu, Seoul 05368, Korea.
³ Division of Laboratory Medicine, Veterans Health Service Medical Center, 61 Jinhwangdoro-gil 53, Gangdong-gu, Seoul 05368, Korea.

Abstract

Chronic neutrophilic leukemia (CNL) is a rare, potentially aggressive, myeloproliferative neoplasm. To the best of our knowledge, there are no previous reports dealing with ¹⁸F-FDG PET findings in CNL. We describe a case of CNL in a 69-year-old male, imaged with ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT at diagnosis and during treatment.

Keywords: F-18 FDG PET; PET/CT; chronic neutrophilic leukemia; leukemia; neutrophilia.