We report on a 59-year-old female patient with an infected vascular graft investigated with 18F FDG-PET/CT. The first of two studies showed FDG activity in the left deltoid and ipsilateral axillary lymph nodes explained by influenza vaccination the day prior. The second 18F FDG-PET/CT showed multiple FDG-avid lymph nodes on both sides of the diaphragm without tracer accumulation at the vaccinat...

objective(s): this study aimed to compare the diagnostic values of 11c-choline and 18f-fluorodeoxyglucose (18f-fdg) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (pet/ct) in patients with cholangiocarcinoma (cca). methods: this prospective study was conducted on 10 patients (6 males and 4 females), aged 42-69 years, suspected of having cca based on ct or magnetic resonance imaging (mri) resu...

Objective(s): The present study aimed to evaluate the role of pretherapeutic 18fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomographycomputed tomography (18F-FDG PET-CT) and maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) in guiding the treatment strategy and predicting the prognosis of esophageal carcinoma, using the survival data of thepatients.Methods: The present retrospective, cohort study wa...

neurolymphomatosis is a rare manifestation of non-hodgkin lymphoma characterized by infiltration of peripheral nerves, nerve roots, plexus and cranial nerves by malignant lymphocytes. this report presents positron emission tomography/computed tomography (pet/ct)imaging with 2-deoxy-2-18f-fluoro-d-glucose (18f-fdg) in 3 cases of non-hodgkin lymphoma with nerve infiltration, including one newly d...

introduction: gastrointestinal stromal tumors (gists) are the most common mesenchymal neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract. gist has been shown to over-express c-kit (cd117), the receptor tyrosine kinase. imatinib (sti571 or glivec) is a new type of tyrosine kinase inhibitor that selectively inhibits various tyrosine kinases and has been successfully used to treat gist. in this study we have...

Objective(s): In clinical practice, approximately 10-25% of post-surgical differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) patients with high serum thyroglobulin (Tg) and negative 131I whole-body scan (WBS) have poor prognosis due to recurrent or metastatic lesions after radioactive iodine treatment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the value of 18F-FDG PET/CT scan in DTC patients with high seru...

Objective(s): Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive neuroendocrine carcinoma, which accounts for 10-15% of pulmonary cancers and exhibits early metastatic spread. This study aimed to determine the added value of 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging in tumor, node, and metastasis (TNM) staging of SCLC, compared to the conventional computed tomography (CT) scan and its potential role as a prognosticat...

Background: To retrospectively describe imaging characteristics of liver metastases on fused FDG-PET/ MRI data sets and to compare the diagnostic accuracy of MRI and fused FDG-PET/MRI data sets for the detection of liver metastases in patients undergoing systemic anticancer treatment. Materials and Methods: 43 oncological patients (mean age: 56+/- 11 years) were investigated by FDG-PET...

background: in the era of well-developed site-specific treatment strategies in cancer, identification of occult primary is of paramount importance in cup patients. furthermore, exact determination of the extent of the disease may help in optimizing treatment planning. the aim of the present study was to investigate additional value of f-18 fdg pet/ct in patients with cancer of unknown primary (...

results fdg-pet/ct findings showed no evidence of malignant disease. there was diffusely increased fdg in soft tissue around the shoulders and hips and fdg-positive axillary lymph nodes consistent with pmr. background remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema (rs3pe) is a rare, but well-defined syndrome comprising polyarthritis with symmetrical synovitis of the small joint...