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Utility of positron emission tomography/CT in the evaluation of small bowel pathology
- Source :
- The British journal of radiology. 85(1017)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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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.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology
Diagnostic accuracy
Review Article
Multimodal Imaging
Sensitivity and Specificity
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Intestinal Neoplasms
Intestine, Small
medicine
Recurrent disease
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Reproducibility of Results
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Response to treatment
Lymphoma
Positron emission tomography
Positron-Emission Tomography
Adenocarcinoma
Female
Radiology
Management principles
Radiopharmaceuticals
business
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1748880X
- Volume :
- 85
- Issue :
- 1017
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The British journal of radiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7a328460ddd350ef4ef59ecd9d17b29d