Positron emission tomography/computed tomography for staging and restaging of head and neck cancer: comparison with positron emission tomography read together with contrast-enhanced computed tomography

Publikation

Positron emission tomography/computed tomography for staging and restaging of head and neck cancer: comparison with positron emission tomography read together with contrast-enhanced computed tomography

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 01.11.2008

Goerres Gerhard W, Schuknecht Bernhard, Schmid Daniel T, Stöckli Sandro, Hany Thomas F

Zitation

Goerres G, Schuknecht B, Schmid D, Stöckli S, Hany T. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography for staging and restaging of head and neck cancer: comparison with positron emission tomography read together with contrast-enhanced computed tomography. Clinical imaging 2008; 32:431-7.

Art

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review (Englisch)

Zeitschrift

Clinical imaging 2008; 32

Veröffentlichungsdatum

01.11.2008

eISSN (Online)

1873-4499

Seiten

431-7

Kurzbeschreibung/Zielsetzung

This retrospective study aimed to describe the differences between image readings done with combined positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) and PET read together with contrast-enhanced CT (ceCT) in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. In 46 patients, no differences were found between the two readings for assessing infiltration of adjacent structures (P=.63), transgression of the midline (P=.67), lymph node involvement (P=.32), and T- and N stage. PET/CT and PET read together with ceCT have comparable diagnostic yield.