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Infectious and inflammatory complications of surgical management of cancer patients imaged with 18F-FDG PET/CT: a pictorial essay
- Source :
- Clinical Imaging. 37:669-679
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2013.
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Abstract
- The aim of this pictorial essay was to highlight the usefulness of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in evaluating incidental infection or inflammation in cancer patients, related to surgical management. A retrospective review of 10,985 consecutive oncologic PET/CTs was done, and nine cases with suspected FDG positive infectious or inflammatory processes were selected for further review. PET/CT helped identify infections and inflammatory processes related to surgical management of cancer patients, define the extent of infection or inflammation, guide the management and, in some cases, evaluate response to therapy.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Response to therapy
Computed tomography
Surgical Flaps
Postoperative Complications
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Neoplasms
medicine
Humans
Surgical Wound Infection
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Empyema
Aged
Retrospective Studies
Aged, 80 and over
Inflammation
Fluorodeoxyglucose
PET-CT
Retrospective review
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Biopsy, Needle
Cancer
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Thoracotomy
Positron emission tomography
Lymphatic Metastasis
Positron-Emission Tomography
Lymph Node Excision
Female
Fdg pet ct
Radiology
Radiopharmaceuticals
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08997071
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Imaging
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6188b0610e797766c624e6cffde9630c