More Reliance on PET-CT Findings

Krukenberg Tumor: CT and PET-CT Findings.

A 41-year-old female patient presented to our nuclear medicine department for initial staging of her known gastric cancer. A couple weeks earlier, the patient was diagnosed with a gastric cancer by endoscopic biopsy. She had complained of recent increasing abdominal and pelvic pain and was experiencing bloating, especially after meals. Physical examination showed nothing with the exception of s...

CT and PET/CT findings of BALTOMA

Adrenal lesions: Common findings and pitfalls on 18F-FDG PET/CT

Adrenal lesions are commonly observed during 18F-FDG PET/CT studies. Although, most of these lesions are considered benign, an important consideration in oncologic patients is metastasis. Benign lesions, such as adenomas usually present with low 18F-FDG uptake, although overlap with malignant lesions exist and clear SUV cut-off for distinguishing adrenal adenomas has not b...

Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis: CT and FDG-PET Findings

OBJECTIVE Lymphomatoid granulomatosis (LG) is a rare, aggressive extranodal Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-positive B-cell lymphoproliferative disease. The purpose of our study was to analyze the CT and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) findings of pulmonary LG. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between 2000 and 2009, four patients with pathologically proven pulmonary LG and chest CT we...

PET/CT Findings for Lymphoma Staging

Many studies demonstrate a high accuracy for PET in staging lymphoma, but few assess observer variation. This study quantified agreement for staging lymphoma with PET/CT. Methods: The PET/CT images of 100 patients with lymphoma who had been referred for staging were reviewed by 3 experienced observers, with 2 observers reviewing each series a second time. Ann Arbor stage and individual nodal an...