Abstract

PABON-CASTILLA, Maritza; ALVAREZ, Melissa; ERAZO-DORADO, Yancy  and  RENJIFO, Martin. Diagnosis of neurolymphomatosis as a late complication of non-Hodgkin lymphoma through 18F-FDG PET-CT. rev.colomb.cancerol. [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.3, pp.110-112.  Epub Oct 26, 2019. ISSN 0123-9015.  https://doi.org/10.35509/01239015.101.

Neurolinfomatosis (LN) is a strange condition, defined as Invasion of cranial nerves and peripheral nerve roots by leukemia or lymphoma. Most of the cases are caused by non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of B cells (BHL). The present paper aims to emphasize the importance of suspecting this entity in patients with NHL and neuropathic pain and the role of 18F-FDG PET-CT in the diagnosis. We present the case of a 63-year-old woman diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, who in her third chemotherapy session DA-EPOCH-R of neuropathic pain in the right upper limb, with a poor clinical outcome, due to worsening pain, contralateral limb involvement, seizures and peripheral facial paralysis.

Keywords : Neurolymphomatosis; Oncological Pain; Non-Hodgkin's Lym-phoma; Positron-Emission tomography.

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