Open Access18F-FDG PET/CT rarely provides additional information other than primary tumor detection in patients with pulmonary carcinoid tumors
Author(s) -
Ebru Tatçı,
Özlem Özmen,
Atila Gökçek,
İ̇nci Uslu Biner,
Esra Özaydın,
Sadi Kaya,
Nuri Arslan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
annals of thoracic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.639
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1817-1737
pISSN - 1998-3557
DOI - 10.4103/1817-1737.140134
Subject(s) - medicine , hounsfield scale , carcinoid tumors , positron emission tomography , primary tumor , radiology , nuclear medicine , metastasis , lymph , neuroendocrine tumors , fluorodeoxyglucose , pathology , computed tomography , cancer
The purpose of this study was to assess the contribution of (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) Positron Emission Tomography (PET)/Computed Tomography (CT) in detection and staging of pulmonary carcinoid tumors.