Open AccessPrevalence and Clinical Significance of Incidental Focal <sup>18</sup>F-FDG Uptake in Colon on PET/CT Imaging
Author(s) -
Yasemin Gökden,
Filiz Özülker,
Tamer Özülker
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
molecular imaging and radionuclide therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 2147-1959
pISSN - 2146-1414
DOI - 10.4274/mirt.galenos.2022.38247
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , colonoscopy , lesion , standardized uptake value , histopathology , positron emission tomography , nuclear medicine , radiology , pathology , colorectal cancer , cancer
The present study aimed to identify the prevalence of focal uptake in the colon on 18 fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose ( 18 F-FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) studies performed for the evaluation of malignancies other than colon, to detect the rate of malignancy in incidental focal 18 F-FDG avid colonic lesions and to investigate if any possible role of maximum standardized uptake value (SUV max ) values in the discrimination of malignant lesions from premalignant and benign ones exist.