The multicenter ITALIAN trial assess the performance of FDG-PET/CT related to pre-test cancer risk in patients with solitary pulmonary nodules and introduces a segmental thoracic diagnostic strategy.

CONCLUSION: In patients with SPN, the pre-test likelihood of malignancy stratification allows to better define PET clinical setting and its diagnostic power. In subjects with low-intermediate pre-test likelihood of malignancy, s-PET/CT might be planned in advance. The adoption of this segmental strategy could reduce radiation exposure, scan-time, and might allow individually targeted protocols. PMID: 32186274 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Radiopharmaceuticals - Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Radiopharm Source Type: research