Abstract

SUAREZ FERNANDEZ, J. P. et al. Positron emission tomography (PET) in oncological clinical practice. Oncología (Barc.) [online]. 2004, vol.27, n.8, pp.15-25. ISSN 0378-4835.

Positron emission tomography with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG-PET) is a diagnostic procedure which has been progressively incorporated to clinical practice in Spain during the last decade. There are several indications in which FDG-PET has demonstrated a better diagnostic accuracy when compared with conventional methods. In order to optimize the use of this new technique, it is recommendable to select those situationts where FDG-PET has shown to be clearly better than the conventional techniques, as staging of lung cancer and lymphoma; restaging of thyroid cancer, colorectal cancer, head and neck cancer, lymphoma and melanoma; localization of unknown primary site carcinomas; diagnosis of solitary pulmonary nodules; and differentiation of tumor recurrence from radionecrosis in brain tumors.

Keywords : Positron emission tomography; PET; FDG-PET; 5FUDG; Oncology.

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