Indian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India
Painted with the Same Brush: Identical PET/CT Scans in DLBCL Using Unrelated Tracers.
Pradap Palanivelu, Harish Goyal, Vasanth Madivanane, Prasanth Ganesan, Dhanapathi Halanaik
Published: 202510.4103/ijnm.ijnm_157_24
Abstract
Open AccessWe report a unique case of a patient with histopathologically proven diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) who underwent both 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose and 68Ga-Pentixafor positron emission tomography/computed tomography scans. The imaging findings showed an identical pattern of radiotracer uptake in disease-involved sites, including lymph nodes and extranodal sites. Despite the tracers having unrelated mechanisms, this concordance in imaging underscores the potential for complementary roles in disease staging, response evaluation, and theranostic applications in DLBCL cases exhibiting CXCR4 expression.