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ArticleJournal of medical ultrasound

Application of Color Doppler Ultrasound to Evaluate Chemotherapeutic Effect on Primary Thyroid Lymphoma.

Cheng-Chuan Hu, Chih-Wei Wang, Jia-Hong Chen

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Article in Journal of medical ultrasound. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Cheng-Chuan HuDepartment of Radiology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei City, Taiwan.
Chih-Wei WangDepartment of Radiology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei City, Taiwan.
Jia-Hong ChenDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defence Medical Center, Taipei City, Taiwan.
National Defense Medical Center · TWTri-Service General Hospital · TW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Primary thyroid lymphoma (PTL) is a rare disease which responds well to rituximab-based chemotherapy. Here, we describe a case who was diagnosed through core needle biopsy as having diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in the right lobe of thyroid gland. Positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET-CT) revealed no other foci of hot spots, so PTL was considered. She was treated with rituximab plus bendamustine for three cycles, and color Doppler ultrasound revealed significant reduction of blood flow signals in the tumor but no significant decrease of its size (<25% extent). Then, the chemotherapy regimen was adjusted to rituximab, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, prednisone (R-COP), and complete remission was noted on ultrasound and PET-CT after three cycles of R-COP treatment. This case is reported to tell that color Doppler ultrasound, in addition to PET-CT, is useful to evaluate chemotherapeutic effect on PTLs.

Indexed as

Dopplerlymphomathyroid neoplasmsultrasonography

Identifiers

PMID34084720
PMCPMC8081108
OpenAlexW3091155443

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