PET in Benign Bone Marrow Disorders

This review aims to describe the current status of benign bone marrow (BM) imaging using PET. BM imaging is important as the BM is not only involved in poiesis of different vital cell lines and can be affected by primary BM disorders, but it is also frequently affected by several extramedullary diseases. Indications for the use of PET in benign BM disorders are the detection of extramedullary hematopoiesis, evaluation of patients with a discrepancy between BM histology and clinical status, visualizing BM infarctions, location of the optimal site for BM biopsy, diagnosing and staging of other hematological BM disorders, evaluation of radiotherapy effect on BM, and evaluation of BM transplantation.

Source: Seminars in Nuclear Medicine - March 17, 2017 Category: Nuclear Medicine Authors: Wouter van der Bruggen, Andor W.J.M. Glaudemans, Edo Vellenga, Riemer H.J.A. Slart Source Type: research