Case 29



Dr Marina-Portia Anthony /Dr Henry Mak
Clinical notes
A 22 year-old woman with a history of Hodgkin's lymphoma stage IIb, presented for a post-treatment FDG-PET/CT scan.
Images
Figure 1. Reformatted sagittal CT (A), FDG-PET (B) and fused FDG-PET/CT (C) images of the spine.

Findings
Diagnosis
Discussion

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