Is 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography useful to discriminate metachronous lung cancer from metastasis in patients with oncological history?

CONCLUSIONS: In oncological patients, despite its high detection rate, 18F-FDG PET/CT, as well as any other clinico-anatomical features, cannot distinguish whether a malignant solitary pulmonary nodule is a metachronous lung cancer or a metastasis, supporting the need of histological differential diagnosis. PMID: 30654605 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging - Category: Nuclear Medicine Tags: Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Source Type: research