Diagnóstico de neurolinfomatosis como complicación tardía de linfoma no Hodgkin por 18F-FDG PET-CT

Neurolinfomatosis (LN) is a strange condition, defined as Invasion of cranial nerves and peripheral nerve roots by leukemia or lymphoma. Most of the cases are caused by non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of B cells (BHL). The present paper aims to emphasize the importance of suspecting this entity in patients with NHL and neuropathic pain and the role of 18F-FDG PET-CT in the diagnosis. We present the case of a 63-year-old woman diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, who in her third chemotherapy session DA-EPOCH-R of neuropathic pain in the right upper limb, with a poor clinical outcome, due to worsening pain, contralateral limb involvement, seizures and peripheral facial paralysis.