Frequency and clinical relevance of PET/CT incidentalomas
| Autor: | Lester S. Johnson, Michele Retrouvey, Tina D. Cunningham, William E. Schaaf, Zeal Patel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Urology Multimodal Imaging Tertiary care Young Adult Outpatient facility Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 Neoplasms Internal medicine medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Clinical significance Ct findings Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over Incidental Findings PET-CT Radiological and Ultrasound Technology business.industry Incidentaloma Gastroenterology General Medicine Middle Aged Hepatology Positron-Emission Tomography Ct technique Female Radiology Radiopharmaceuticals Tomography X-Ray Computed Nuclear medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Abdominal Imaging. 39:657-662 |
| ISSN: | 1432-0509 0942-8925 |
| Popis: | To assess the frequency of clinically significant incidental CT findings on PET/CT. Reports of 345 cases of baseline standard skull base to thighs PET/CT exams done over the course of a 6 month period at an outpatient facility affiliated with a large tertiary care level 1 trauma medical center were retrospectively reviewed. Incidental CT findings were assigned a level of clinical significance on a scale of 1–5, from doubtful significance to very significant. CT findings already known from prior CT reports were not included. CT findings corresponding to PET findings were also excluded. A score of 3 or greater was considered significant and reportable. Out of 345 cases, 171 (50%) had a least one CT finding rated at or above a score of 3 on our scale of significance, while 96 (28%) were found to have at least one CT finding with score at or above 4, and 25 cases (7%) showed at least one CT finding rated 5. A substantial percentage of baseline PET/CT studies contain previously undiagnosed, significant incidental findings on the CT images. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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