Preliminary experience with 18f-fluoro-deoxy-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in pediatric oncology patients
| Autor: | Dragana Sobic-Saranovic, Smiljana V. Pavlovic, Vladimir Obradović, Aleksandra Djuric-Stefanovic, Strahinja Odalovic, Milorad Petrovic, Djordjije Saranovic, Z. Petrasinovic, Isidora Grozdic, Aleksandar Milovanović |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Computed tomography Multimodal Imaging 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 Neoplasms Fluoro deoxy glucose Pediatric oncology Humans Medicine Therapy efficacy Stage (cooking) Child Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry General Medicine 3. Good health Child Preschool Positron-Emission Tomography 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Female Radiology Radiopharmaceuticals Ct imaging Tomography X-Ray Computed Nuclear medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Acta chirurgica Iugoslavica. 58:67-73 |
| ISSN: | 2406-0887 0354-950X |
| DOI: | 10.2298/aci1104067o |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to present preliminary experience with FDG PET/CT in pediatric oncology patients in National PET Center, Clinical Center of Serbia and to asses its impact on management of malignancies in children. 33 FDG PET /CT scans were performed on 30 pediatric patients. PET/CT imaging was performed for staging the disease, assessing therapy efficacy and diagnosing recurrent or metastatic disease. FDG PET/CT changed the stage of the disease in 60.6 % (20/33) of the cases. 14 patients were down-staged after PET/CT, mostly patients with Hodgkin?s disease, were in 7/10 cases PET/CT showed no activity in residual masses. Six scans led to upstage of the disease. In three cases PET/CT did not change the stage of disease, but has showed new distant metastases. In conclusion, FDG PET/CT showed important role in managing pediatric patients with different malignancies and was useful complementary diagnostic tool to conventional imaging methods. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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