Axillary Lymph Node in Extra-Ocular Retinoblastoma - Benign or Malignant?

Shubha Gadde Ravindra; Sambit Sagar; Shilpa Khanna Arora; Rachna Seth; Neiwete Lomi; Rakesh Kumar

doi:10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_4_23

Axillary Lymph Node in Extra-Ocular Retinoblastoma - Benign or Malignant?

Indian J Nucl Med. 2023 Jul-Sep;38(3):305-306. doi: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_4_23. Epub 2023 Oct 10.

Authors

Shubha Gadde Ravindra¹, Sambit Sagar¹, Shilpa Khanna Arora², Rachna Seth², Neiwete Lomi³, Rakesh Kumar¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET-CT, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
² Department of Paediatric Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
³ Department of Ophthalmology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

Abstract

A 1-year-old male child presented with whitish discoloration of pupil of the left eye and swelling over the left axilla. A contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of the brain and orbits performed revealed left eye extra-ocular retinoblastoma. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography scan was done in this child as a part of baseline staging of retinoblastoma in an ongoing research project. The scan revealed left eye extra-ocular retinoblastoma along with calcified left axillary level I lymph node.

Keywords: Bacille Calmette-Guérin lymphadenitis; calcified axillary lymphadenopathy; extra-ocular retinoblastoma.