Pericardial involvement in a non-Hodgkin lymphoma patient: coregistered FDG-PET and CT imaging

An 80-year-old man with a previous myocardial infarct, presented with malaise, weight loss, fever, night sweating, dyspnoea, and bilateral pleural effusion. Cardiac echo revealed a 3 cm pericardial effusion without signs of tamponade and a left ventricular ejection fraction of 60%. After transbronchial biopsy and pleural effusion cytology, large-cell B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma …