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- Title
Preliminary experience with 18f-fluoro-deoxy-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in pediatric oncology patients.
- Authors
Odalović, Strahinja; Šobić.-Šaranović, Dragana; Pavlović, Smiljana; Grozdić, Isidora; Šaranović, Djordjije; Petrović, Milorad; Petrašinović, Aleksandar Milovanović Zorica; Djurić.-Stefanović, Aleksandra; Obradović, Vladimir
- Abstract
The aim of this study was to present preliminary experience with FDG PET/CT in pediatric oncology patients in National PET Center, Clinical Center of Serbia and to asses its impact on management of malignancies in children. 33 FDG PET /CT scans were performed on 30 pediatric patients. PET/CT imaging was performed for staging the disease, assessing therapy efficacy and diagnosing recurrent or metastatic disease. FDG PET/CT changed the stage of the disease in 60.6 % (20/33) of the cases. 14 patients were down-staged after PET/CT, mostly patients with Hodgkin's disease, were in 7/10 cases PET/CT showed no activity in residual masses. Six scans led to upstage of the disease. In three cases PET/CT did not change the stage of disease, but has showed new distant metastases. In conclusion, FDG PET/CT showed important role in managing pediatric patients with different malignancies and was useful complementary diagnostic tool to conventional imaging methods.
- Subjects
DIAGNOSIS of tumors in children; POSITRON emission tomography; DIAGNOSTIC imaging; HODGKIN'S disease; METASTASIS
- Publication
Acta Chirurgica Iugoslavica, 2011, Vol 58, Issue 4, p67
- ISSN
0354-950X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2298/ACI1104067O