Positron emission tomography computed tomography
The Value of 18 Fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Imaging in Breast Cancer Staging
... (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) revealed metabolically active internal mammary lymph node that was indistinct in conventional images; the staging was ...
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Prediction of pathologic prognostic factors in patients with lung adenocarcinomas: comparison of thin-section computed tomography and positron emission tomography/computed tomography
... F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) are often used as preoperative independent variables to evaluate the invasiveness of lung ...
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Incidentalomas of the prostate detected by 18 fluoro 2 deoxy D glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography
... 18-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET) is used to diagnose, stage and assess response to treatment for numerous cancers, but it is not ...
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Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Imaging of a Patient with Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Prostate
... A 77-year-old man admitted to our hospital with complains of constipation and hesitancy. He had decreased urinary output and severe constipation for 5-6 months. Clinical examination revealed an enlarged and firm ...
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Combined positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for imaging of orbital tumours and tumours extending into the orbit
... Combined positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for imaging of orbital tumours and tumours extending into the orbit.. Annemarie Klingenstein, 1 Gerd-Ullrich Mueller-Li[r] ...
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F 18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography computed tomography for the diagnosis of Takayasu's arteritis in stroke: a case report
... enhanced computed tomography showed an aneurysm of the infrarenal aorta, only F-18- fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography revealed pathology ...
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Orbital positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging findings in graves ophthalmopathy
... Methods: Patients were assessed with a complete ophthalmological evaluation and assigned a VISA classification for GO. All patients underwent serum thyroid hormone measurement, antibody profile, and 18-fluorodeoxyglucose ...
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Usefulness of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography for detection of a neuroblastic nodule in a ganglioneuroblastoma: a case report
... Case presentation: We report a case of a Japanese boy aged 3 years, 8 months, with an unresectable abdominal tumor and elevated vanillylmandelic acid and homovanillic acid levels. The initial biopsy was ganglioneuroma. ...
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F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/ computed tomography in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
... ABSTRACT Purpose: We evaluated the prognostic value of total lesion glycolysis TLG measured in baseline 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography 18F-FDG PE[r] ...
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Review Article Progress of positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the management of nasopharyngeal carcinoma
... particularly positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET-CT), have shown significant application value in the clinical diagnosis, staging, treatment, and prognosis of NPC in ...
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Can positron emission tomography - computed tomography imaging predict of metastases in patients with small cell lung cancer
... cases. Positron emission tomography - computed tomography (PET/CT) has become increasingly used as an initial staging tool in patients with ...
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Nonabsorbable suture granuloma mimicking ovarian cancer recurrence at combined positron emission tomography/computed tomography evaluation: a case report
... including computed tomography and combined 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography, were strongly suggestive of isolated cancer relapse in ...
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Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography (PET CT) in Head and Neck Pathology
... substantial. Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography (PET-CT) combines the power of biological / mo- lecular imaging with the anatomic detail of CT in order to provide a very ...
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18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in the Management of Aggressive Non-Hodgkin's B-Cell Lymphoma
... This paper will discuss the role of FDG-PET/CT in the pretreatment staging, restaging, treatment monitoring, assessment of transformation, and posttherapy surveillance of patients with a[r] ...
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Contrast-enhanced [18 F] fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography in clinical oncology: tumor-, site-, and question-based comparison with standard positron emission tomography/computed tomography
... for emission-based attenuation correction, immediately followed by a PET scan, which was executed in three-dimensional (3D) mode, with a 3-min acquisition per bed ...PET emission scan, while the patient was ...
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Routine use of positron emission tomography/computed tomography for staging of primary colorectal cancer: Does it affect clinical management?
... Colorectal malignancies are the third most common cancer and a common cause of cancer related death [1]. Accurate preoperative staging of colorectal carcinoma (CRC) is essential for evaluating the expected prognosis and ...
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When to perform positron emission tomography/computed tomography or radionuclide bone scan in patients with recently diagnosed prostate cancer
... turnover. Positron-emitting radiopharmaceuticals, such as fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose, choline-derived drugs (fluorine-18-fluorocholine and carbon-11-choline) and sodium fluorine-18-fluoride, are increasingly ...
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Gallium-68 perfusion positron emission tomography/computed tomography to assess pulmonary function in lung cancer patients undergoing surgery
... This study has several limitations. First, PPO lung functions were not correlated with actual post-operative lung function. Nevertheless, there is evidence than PPO values are prognostic factors for short and long-term ...
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Original Article Usefulness of Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PDG-PET/CT) scan on diagnosis of kikuchi disease
... Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) findings showed that most lymph nodes were homogeneously enhanced without evidence of gross necrosis in several cases of KD [8, ...
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18 F Fluoride positron emission tomography/computed tomography for noninvasive in vivo quantification of pathophysiological bone metabolism in experimental murine arthritis
... To validate quantification of pathological bone metabolism by 18 F-fluoride PET imaging in experimental arthritis, we performed correlation analysis of quantitative PET results with semi[r] ...
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