Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: Diagnostic Tests

Mandatory medical device diagnostics.

  • X-ray of the thorax (radiographic thorax/chest), in two planes.
  • Abdominal ultrasonography (ultrasound examination of the abdominal organs) – for basic diagnostics.
  • Computed tomography (CT; sectional imaging procedure (X-ray images from different directions with computer-based evaluation)) of the neck, thorax, abdomen (cervical/thoracic/abdominal CT).

Optional medical device diagnostics – depending on the results of the history, physical examination, laboratory diagnostics and obligatory medical device diagnostics – for differential diagnostic clarification.

  • Gastroscopy (gastroscopy).
  • Colonoscopy (colonoscopy)
  • Skeletal scintigraphy (nuclear medicine procedure that can represent functional changes in the skeletal system, in which regionally (locally) pathologically (pathologically) increased or decreased bone remodeling processes are present).
  • Positron emission tomography (PET; nuclear medicine procedure that allows the creation of cross-sectional images of living organisms by visualizing the distribution patterns of weak radioactive substances) – for questionable findings and therapeutic consequences.
  • Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET-CT): combined nuclear medicine (PET) and radiological (CT) imaging procedure, in which the distribution pattern of radioactive substances (tracers) can be localized very precisely with the aid of cross-sectional imaging – in cases of suspected follicular lymphoma (stage I/II).