Prognostic impact of pre-transplantation computed tomography and 67gallium scanning in chemosensitive diffuse large B cell lymphoma patients undergoing hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation.
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- Annals of nuclear medicine
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2008
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 251–260
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.1007/s12149-007-0124-x
- PMID: 18535875
- Source
- Medline
- License
- Unknown
Abstract
(67)Ga scan helps to identify, in the pre-transplant evaluation, two groups with a different outcome: one group of patients with positive CT and negative (67)Ga scans pre-transplant, who showed a favorable outcome with a low rate of relapse, and the other group of patients with both positive CT and (67)Ga scans pre-transplant, who showed a poor prognosis and did not benefit from autologous stem-cell transplantation. They should have been offered other therapeutic strategies.
