Prognostic role of "radiological" sarcopenia in lymphoma: a systematic review

null null Sarcopenia is considered to be a poor prognostic factor for several oncological diseases; however, some promising results for lymphoma are now available. The definition of sarcopenia is mainly based upon muscle strength, quantity or quality and physical performance, but some imaging tools (such as CT) have been introduced to estimate quantitatively the muscle areas as an indirect expression of sarcopenia. Our aim was to perform a...