Incidental findings in imaging diagnostic tests: a systematic review

B Lumbreras, L Donat… - The British journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The objective of this review is to summarise the available evidence on the frequency and
management of incidental findings in imaging diagnostic tests. Original articles were …

18F-FDG PET and PET/CT in the evaluation of cancer treatment response

S Ben-Haim, P Ell - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2009 - jnm.snmjournals.org
Multimodality imaging, as represented by its greatest exponent, PET/CT, has a firm place in
the evaluation of a patient presenting with cancer. With 18F-FDG, PET/CT is rapidly …

PET/CT: Form and Function1

TM Blodgett, CC Meltzer, DW Townsend - Radiology, 2007 - pubs.rsna.org
Functional imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) is playing an increasingly
important role in the diagnosis and staging of malignant disease, image-guided therapy …

Improvements in cancer staging with PET/CT: literature-based evidence as of September 2006

J Czernin, M Allen-Auerbach… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2007 - jnm.snmjournals.org
PET/CT with 18 F-FDG is increasingly being used for staging, restaging, and treatment
monitoring for cancer patients. CT is still frequently used only for attenuation correction and …

Screening for cancer with PET and PET/CT: potential and limitations

H Schöder, M Gönen - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2007 - jnm.snmjournals.org
Screening for cancer remains a very emotional and hotly debated issue in contemporary
medical practice. An analysis of published data reveals a multitude of opinions based on a …

Gastrointestinal metastasis of primary lung cancer: an analysis of 366 cases

Y Hu, N Feit, Y Huang, W Xu, S Zheng… - Oncology …, 2018 - spandidos-publications.com
The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is not a common site of metastasis in primary lung cancer. The
aim of the present study was to reveal the clinical and prognostic characteristics of …

Diagnostic accuracy of PET/CT in patients with extranodal marginal zone MALT lymphoma

C Perry, Y Herishanu, U Metzer… - European journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background: 18Fluoro‐2‐deoxyglucose (18FDG) positron emission tomography
(PET) is widely used for initial staging and follow‐up in patients with malignant lymphoma …

Physiology and pathophysiology of incidental findings detected on FDG-PET scintigraphy

Y Liu, NV Ghesani, LS Zuckier - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2010 - Elsevier
A routine feature of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging
is whole-body acquisition that results in many unexpected findings identified outside of the …

Diagnostic accuracy of colorectal cancer staging with whole-body PET/CT colonography

P Veit-Haibach, CA Kuehle, T Beyer, H Stergar… - Jama, 2006 - jamanetwork.com
ContextStaging of patients with colorectal cancer often requires a multimodality, multistep
imaging approach. Colonography composed of a combined modality of positron emission …

Bowel hot spots at PET-CT

HB Prabhakar, DV Sahani, AJ Fischman, PR Mueller… - Radiographics, 2007 - pubs.rsna.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) with 2-[fluorine-18] fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG)
has been shown to be sensitive in the detection of many bowel malignancies, but its …