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- Title
Role of dual time fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography-computed tomography in identifying co-existing inflammatory and malignant disease: Who holds it (FDG) longer?
- Authors
Nair, Anirudh V.; Sandya, C. J.; Shagos, G. S.; Anirudh, Soumya; Rajamma, Bindhu Mangalath; Ramachandran, P. V.; Moorthy, Srikanth
- Abstract
18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) is an integral part of imaging in the follow-up of head and neck malignancies. Very often distinguishing inflammatory/infective from malignant recurrence cannot be made confidently with standard uptake value (SUV) alone, as inflammatory lesions have shown to have a very high SUV, and in some cases both can co-exist. In such doubtful cases, dual time PET-CT (3-5 h delayed) is of paramount importance in confidently differentiating inflammatory/infective from a malignant cause.
- Subjects
SQUAMOUS cell carcinoma; CANCER treatment; INFLAMMATION treatment; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; POSITRON emission tomography; COMPUTED tomography; NECK surgery; CANCER relapse
- Publication
Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2015, Vol 30, Issue 2, p139
- ISSN
0972-3919
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.4103/0972-3919.152976