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FAPI-PET/CT improves staging in a lung cancer patient with cerebral metastasis
verfasst von:
Frederik L. Giesel, Claus Peter Heussel, Thomas Lindner, Manuel Röhrich, Hendrik Rathke, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Jürgen Debus, Uwe Haberkorn, Clemens Kratochwil
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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Ausgabe 8/2019
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Excerpt
FDG-PET/CT is the current mainstay of lung cancer staging and presents favorable sensitivity and specificity in comparison to morphological diagnostic means especially for mediastinal lymph-node assessment. However, high physiological uptake in the brain requires additional cerebral magnetic resonance imaging to complete M-staging. Although not a major limitation, the dependency of FDG on blood sugar and the need of preparatory fasting and to recline during the 1-h uptake phase is inconvenient, hampering smooth patient workflow [
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