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Evaluation of thymic tumors with 18F-FDG PET-CT: a pictorial review.

Punit Sharma1, Abhinav Singhal, Arvind Kumar, Chandrasekhar Bal, Arun Malhotra, Rakesh Kumar.   

Abstract

Thymic tumors represent a broad spectrum of neoplastic disorders and pose considerable diagnostic difficulties. A non-invasive imaging study to determine the nature of thymic lesions can have significant impact on management of such tumors. 18F-flurorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) has shown promising results in characterization of thymic tumors. The objective of this article is to provide an illustrative tutorial highlighting the clinical utility of 18F-FDG PET-CT imaging in patients with thymic tumors. We have pictorially depicted the 18F-FDG PET-CT salient imaging characteristics of various thymic tumors, both epithelial and non-epithelial. Also discussed is the dynamic physiology of thymus gland which is to be kept in mind when evaluating thymic pathology on 18F-FDG PET-CT, as it can lead to interpretative pitfalls.

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Year:  2013        PMID： 23377872     DOI： 10.1258/ar.2012.120536

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Acta Radiol        ISSN： 0284-1851            Impact factor:   1.990


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5.  18F-FDG PET/CT Evaluation of Thymomas: a Pictorial Review.

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Journal:  Nucl Med Mol Imaging       Date:  2021-06-22

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