Diffuse CT Contrast Enhancement of Cervical Lymph Nodes in Angioimmunoblastic Lymphadenopathy

Locksmith, John P.; Brannon, Michael H.

doi:10.1097/00004728-199107000-00035

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“…This intense enhancement can be explained by the hypervascularization of the tumor as was evidenced in the histologic study. The presence of intense homogeneous adenopathic enhancement is rare and has been noted in cervical, mediastinal, and abdominopelvic locations, in some cases of metastatic oat cell, carcinoid, renal, vesical and papillary thyroid cancers, angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy, Castleman disease, Kaposi sarcoma in AIDS patients, tuberculosis, lymphoma, sarcoidosis, and in Kikuchi and Kimura's diseases [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. As in our cases, in most of these entities the intense adenopathic enhancement has been related to hypervascularization.…”

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Cervical lymph node metastases of medullary thyroid carcinoma: CT findings

et al. 1997

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Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a rare malignancy which spreads frequently to cervical lymph nodes. We report the CT findings of MTC metastatic cervical adenopathies in two patients with previously resected MTC. The CT scans showed calcifications (one patient) and massive homogeneous postcontrast nodal enhancement. Medullary thyroid carcinoma should be included in the differential diagnosis of entities showing calcifications and intense homogeneous adenopathic enhancement on CT studies.

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