1. Management of Primary Osseous Spinal Tumors with PET
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Ali Gholamrezanezhad, Scott Rudkin, Ali Batouli, George R. Matcuk, David A. Petrov, and Hossein Jadvar
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Spinal Neoplasms ,Radiation ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,Pet imaging ,Mr imaging ,Response to treatment ,Bone and Bones ,Spine ,Article ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Positron-Emission Tomography ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Radiology ,Molecular imaging ,business - Abstract
Knowledge of the PET imaging findings of osseous spinal neoplasms is essential, because they are common incidental findings on PET scans done for staging of unrelated primary malignancies. Additionally, PET can help differentiate lesions that are not clearly defined by anatomic modalities alone. PET can also be used for follow-up of aggressive tumors to assess response to treatment, often proving superior to CT or MR imaging alone for this purpose. This review discusses the role of PET/CT and PET/MR imaging in the diagnosis and management of primary benign and malignant osseous tumors of the spine.
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- 2019