Lymph node staging in extracranial head and neck cancer with FDG PET – appropriate uptake period and size-dependence of the results - Concepedia

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Lymph node staging in extracranial head and neck cancer with FDG PET – appropriate uptake period and size-dependence of the results

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2002

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T. Klenzner, Th. Krause, Michael Mix, U. H. Ross, E. Moser, Egbert Nitzsche, I. Brink

Nuklearmedizin - NuclearMedicine

Abstract

The appropriate uptake period for static clinical extracranial head and neck PET imaging that allows measurements in the activity plateau phase is about 90 min. FDG PET may add some significant information regarding metastatic spread into regional lymph nodes.