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. 2016 Jun;30(6):1446-8.
doi: 10.1038/leu.2015.338. Epub 2015 Dec 9.

Whole-body diffusion-weighted MRI: a new gold standard for assessing disease burden in patients with multiple myeloma?

C Pawlyn  1   2 , L Fowkes  3 , S Otero  3 , J R Jones  1   2 , K D Boyd  2 , F E Davies  1   4 , G J Morgan  1   4 , D J Collins  5 , B Sharma  3 , A Riddell  3 , M F Kaiser  1   2 , C Messiou  1   3
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Whole-body diffusion-weighted MRI: a new gold standard for assessing disease burden in patients with multiple myeloma?

C Pawlyn et al. Leukemia. 2016 Jun.
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WB-DWI improves detection of diffuse marrow infiltration compared with FDG PET–CT and detects trephine sampling error. WB-DWI b900 maximum intensity projection image (a) and FDG PET–CT (b) in the same patient. WB-DWI demonstrates diffuse infiltration of the bone marrow; FDG PET–CT shows no evidence of disease. WB-DWI b900 maximum intensity projection image (c) demonstrates multifocal disease (examples shown by arrows). Axial b900 image (superimposed) shows the trephine tract (arrow), which does not sample a focal lesion.
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