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The role of quantitative (18)F-FDG PET studies for the differentiation of malignant and benign bone lesions.

Antonia Dimitrakopoulou‐Strauss, Ludwig G. Strauss, Thomas O. Heichel, Hua Wu, Cyrill Burger, Ludger Bernd, V. Ewerbeck

PubMed · 2002 · 139 citations · 13 references

Abstract

(18)F-FDG PET has a high specificity for the exclusion of a malignant bone tumor. Evaluation of the full (18)F-FDG kinetics and the application of discriminant analysis are required and can be used prospectively to classify a bone lesion as malignant or benign.

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