IS 2-DEOXY-2-[18F]FLUORO-D-GLUCOSE PET/CT ACQUISITION FROM THE UPPER THIGH TO THE VERTEX OF SKULL USEFUL IN ONCOLOGICAL PATIENTS? (Articolo in rivista)

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  • IS 2-DEOXY-2-[18F]FLUORO-D-GLUCOSE PET/CT ACQUISITION FROM THE UPPER THIGH TO THE VERTEX OF SKULL USEFUL IN ONCOLOGICAL PATIENTS? (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2015-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • Salvatore B, Caprio M.G, Fonti R, D'Amico D, Fraioli F, Salvatore M, Pace L. (2015)
    IS 2-DEOXY-2-[18F]FLUORO-D-GLUCOSE PET/CT ACQUISITION FROM THE UPPER THIGH TO THE VERTEX OF SKULL USEFUL IN ONCOLOGICAL PATIENTS?
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  • Salvatore B, Caprio M.G, Fonti R, D'Amico D, Fraioli F, Salvatore M, Pace L. (literal)
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  • Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche- Istituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini, Napoli, Italy; Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy; Dipartimento ad attività integrate di Diagnostica Morfologica e Funzionale, Radioterapia, Medicina Legale Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy; Fondazione SDN-IRCCS, Napoli, Italy (literal)
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  • IS 2-DEOXY-2-[18F]FLUORO-D-GLUCOSE PET/CT ACQUISITION FROM THE UPPER THIGH TO THE VERTEX OF SKULL USEFUL IN ONCOLOGICAL PATIENTS? (literal)
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  • Aim:To assess whether performing routinely 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose PET/CT (18FDG PET/CT) scanfrom the upper thigh to the vertex of skull is clinically relevant. Materials and Methods: 3502 (1634 female; mean-age 60+16) consecutive patients undergoing 18 FDG PET/CT were retrospectively analyzed. Patients were divided in 10 groups according to primar y malignancy. Chi-square analysis was used to assess differences among proportions. A p value < 0.05 was considered significant. Results: 18 FDG PET/CT was positive in head district in 130/3502 (3,7%) patients. In all patients lesions were unknown before PET/CT examination. PET/CT showed 158 positive brain/head uptake in the 130 patients. The 158 lesions were localized in: brain (43/158; 27%), bone (52/158; 33%), lymph node (1/158; 0,6%), soft tissue (55/158; 35%) and other sites (7/158; 4,4%). According to each group, patients were positive in the head district in 1.0% for Gastrointestinal Cancer (7/690), 3.0 % for Genitourinary Cancer (3/101), 3.7 % for Haemathologic Cancer (59/1590), 2.7 % for Gynaecologic Cancer (3/112), 7.8% for Head-Neck-Thyroid and Parathyroid Cancer (26/331), 3.5% for Breast Cancer (7/200), 2.6% for Lung Cancer (7/271), 3.4% for Melanoma (2/59), 7.4% for Sarcoma (2/27), 11.6% for Unknown Primary Tumour (14/121). Conclusion: Our data show a relatively high incidence of brain/head lesion in patients with Unknown Primary Tumour. (literal)
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