Whole-body imaging of multiple myeloma: diagnostic criteria

AG Ormond Filho, BC Carneiro, D Pastore, IP Silva… - Radiographics, 2019 - pubs.rsna.org
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a clonal plasma cell proliferative disorder characterized by
primary infiltration of bone marrow and excessive production of abnormal immunoglobulin …

Imaging in multiple myeloma: How? When?

E Zamagni, P Tacchetti, M Cavo - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2019 - ashpublications.org
Bone disease is the most frequent feature of multiple myeloma (MM) and represents a
marker of end-organ damage; it is used to establish the diagnosis and to dictate the …

Role of magnetic resonance imaging in the management of patients with multiple myeloma: a consensus statement

MA Dimopoulos, J Hillengass, S Usmani… - Journal of Clinical …, 2015 - ascopubs.org
Purpose The aim of International Myeloma Working Group was to develop practical
recommendations for the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in multiple myeloma …

Guidelines for the use of imaging in the management of patients with myeloma

A Chantry, M Kazmi, S Barrington, V Goh… - British journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The role of imaging in myeloma has gained increasing importance over the past few years.
The recently revised definition of myeloma from the International Myeloma Working Group …

Extensive bone marrow infiltration and abnormal free light chain ratio identifies patients with asymptomatic myeloma at high risk for progression to symptomatic …

E Kastritis, E Terpos, L Moulopoulos… - Leukemia, 2013 - nature.com
Asymptomatic multiple myeloma (AMM) is characterized by a constant risk of progression to
symptomatic myeloma. To evaluate previously recognized risk factors and to identify high …

PET/CT improves the definition of complete response and allows to detect otherwise unidentifiable skeletal progression in multiple myeloma

E Zamagni, C Nanni, K Mancuso, P Tacchetti… - Clinical Cancer …, 2015 - AACR
Purpose: To evaluate the role of 18F-FDG PET/CT in 282 symptomatic multiple myeloma
patients treated up-front between 2002 and 2012. Experimental Design: All patients were …

Prospective evaluation of whole-body MRI versus FDG PET/CT for lesion detection in participants with myeloma

C Messiou, N Porta, B Sharma, D Levine… - Radiology: Imaging …, 2021 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To compare disease detection of myeloma using contemporary whole-body (WB)
MRI and fluorine 18 (18F) fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT protocols and to correlate …

Quantitative diffusion-weighted imaging of the bone marrow: an adjunct tool for the diagnosis of a diffuse MR imaging pattern in patients with multiple myeloma

V Koutoulidis, S Fontara, E Terpos, F Zagouri… - Radiology, 2017 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To evaluate the apparent diffusion coefficients (ADCs) of magnetic resonance (MR)
imaging patterns in the bone marrow of patients with multiple myeloma (MM) and to …

Predictive value of longitudinal whole-body magnetic resonance imaging in patients with smoldering multiple myeloma

M Merz, T Hielscher, B Wagner, S Sauer, S Shah… - Leukemia, 2014 - nature.com
Previous studies demonstrated the relevance of focal lesions (FL) in whole-body magnetic
resonance imaging (wb-MRI) at the initial workup of patients with smoldering multiple …

Dual-energy CT: virtual calcium subtraction for assessment of bone marrow involvement of the spine in multiple myeloma

C Thomas, C Schabel, B Krauss… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. Dual-energy CT (DECT) enables subtraction of calcium, facilitating the
visualization of bone marrow (BM) in the axial skeleton. The purpose of this study was to …