Preoperative Evaluation of Patients With Primary Head and Neck Cancer Using Dual-Head 18Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography

Abstract

Because of the high prevalence of second primary tumors detected by FDG-PET and the decreased error rate in the assessment of lymph node involvement compared with CT and US, FDG-PET should be routinely performed in patients with primary head and neck cancer.