doi: 10.7861/clinmedicine.12-4-368.
PET/CT in oncology
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- DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.12-4-368
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PET/CT in oncology
Fahim-Ul-Hassan et al. Clin Med (Lond).2012 Aug.
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Hodgkin's disease: (a) Coronal images show increased metabolic activity in multiple lymph nodes above and below the diaphragm and a large anterior mediastinal mass. (b) Post-chemotherapy, there is complete resolution of18F-FDG uptake in lymph nodes and mediastinal mass, in keeping with a complete metabolic response.

High-grade glioma: (a) Transaxial brain scan shows increased11C-methionine in a left frontal lobe lesion; (b)18F-FDG PET/CT shows increased metabolic activity at the same site indicating a high-grade tumour.

Oesophageal cancer. Coronal18F-FDG images show intense abnormal activity in a left paratracheal lymph node (top arrow), distal thickened oesophagus (middle arrow) and a left adrenal metastasis (bottom arrow).

Melanoma: (a) Coronal views of18F-FDG PET/CT show multiple metastases in lynph nodes, lungs, skeleton and liver. (b) Coronal and axial fused PET/CT images also localise abnormal uptake in various muscles (arrows).
References
- The Royal College of Radiologists. Evidence-based indications for the use of PET-CT in the United Kingdom 2012. London: RCR, 2012.http://www.rcr.ac.uk/publications.aspx?PageID = 310&PublicationID = 363, [Accessed 2 July 2012] - PubMed
