FDG-PET/CT in Management of Head and Neck Cancers: Is it Mandatory to do Whole Body Scan?
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Can we save our resources with half-body-18F-FDG-PET-CT rather than whole-body, in the management of head & neck cancers?
Methods A 6-year-period retrospective analysis of 729 consecutive PET-CT scans of H&N cancer patients was performed in order to record the incidence of below-diaphragm metastases and below-diaphragm synchronous primary malignancies. The four main indications of PET-CT in H&N cancers are; pre-treatment staging of high-risk of disseminated disease, metastatic cervical lymphadenopathy with unknown...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Egyptian Journal Nuclear Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2536-9113
DOI: 10.21608/egyjnm.2012.5482