| Literature DB >> 22919004 |
C G Cronin1, J Scott, A Kambadakone, O A Catalano, D Sahani, M A Blake, S McDermott.
Abstract
We describe the management principles and different roles of positron emission tomography (PET)/CT in the evaluation of patients with small bowel tumours (adenocarcinoma, gastrointestinal stromal tumour, lymphoma, metastases) from initial staging, monitoring response to treatment, to detection of recurrent disease. We also discuss the various non-malignant aetiologies of small bowel fludeoxyglucose (FDG) PET uptake, and other pitfalls in FDG PET/CT interpretation. Awareness of the imaging appearances of small bowel tumours, patterns of disease spread and potential PET/CT interpretation pitfalls are of paramount importance to optimise diagnostic accuracy.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22919004 PMCID: PMC3487051 DOI: 10.1259/bjr/64534573
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Radiol ISSN: 0007-1285 Impact factor: 3.039