Case Report

Primary penile lymphoma: the use of PET-CT for accurate staging and response monitoring

10.4261/1305-3825.DIR.6253-12.1

  • Sellam Karunanithi,
  • Punit Sharma,
  • Niraj Naswa,
  • Ramya Soundararajan,
  • Tushar Mohapatra,
  • Arun Malhotra,
  • Chandrasekhar Bal,
  • Rakesh Kumar

Received Date: 21.06.2012 Accepted Date: 25.07.2012 Diagn Interv Radiol 2013;19(2):130-133

Primary penile lymphoma is an extremely rare neoplasm. We present a case of 63-year-old man with painless diffuse pe- nile swelling and retention of urine. Biopsy from the penile swelling demonstrated CD20+ diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Staging was performed using fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) and revealed a FDG avid penile mass with enlarged and FDG avid multiple inguinal and aortocaval lymph nodes. A follow-up FDG PET-CT scan after eight cycles of combina- tion chemotherapy showed complete remission of the dis- ease. Thus, FDG PET-CT should be integrated in management protocols of rare primary penile lymphoma.