Assessing F-18 FDG uptake in the sentinel lymph node in breast cancer.

Conclusion: Combined evaluation of 18F-FDG PET/CT and SLN SPECT/CT images to assess 18F-FDG uptake particularly in the SLN(s) is a new image analysis technique to detect early metastatic disease in the axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer. Although, this technique does not seem to be feasible to use in routine practice mainly due to limitations of current PET/CT technology in detecting small amount of tumor, it is an interesting image analysis technique to know for possible future use. PMID: 30413593 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology - Category: Nuclear Medicine Tags: J Nucl Med Technol Source Type: research