Whipple Disease Misdiagnosed as Lymphoma by 18 F-FDG PET/CT: A Case Study.

Cheng, You; Lu, Kai-Yu; Shao, Dan · Clin Nucl Med · 2023

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

Whipple disease is a rare disorder caused by infection with the gram-positive bacterium Tropheryma whipplei . It can invade various organs and systems of the whole body. This case report describes a patient with invasion of multiple lymph nodes throughout the body misdiagnosed as lymphoma by PET/CT.

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