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Cancer Detection with Whole-Body PET Using 2-[18F]Fluoro-2-Deoxy-D-Glucose

DOI

255

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0

References

1993

Year

Carl K. Hoh, Randall A. Hawkins, John A. Glaspy, Magnus Dahlbom, Nielson Tse, Edward J. Hoffman, Christiaan Schiepers, Yong Choi, Sheila Rege, Egbert Nitzsche,
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Abstract

Because of the high glycolytic rate of malignant tissue, the whole-body FDG-PET technique has promise in the detection of a wide variety of both primary and metastatic malignancies. The presence of FDG uptake in benign inflammatory conditions may limit the specificity of the technique. The sensitivity for the detection of malignant lesions was 87% and the positive predictive value was 94%. The whole-body FDG-PET method is promising both in determining the nature of a localized lesion and in defining the systemic extent of malignant disease.