Comparison of Whole-Body PET/CT, Dedicated High-Resolution Head and Neck PET/CT, and Contrast-Enhanced CT in Preoperative Staging of Clinically M0 Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck

• Published in: Journal of Nuclear Medicine Vol. 50; no. 8; pp. 1205 - 1213
• Main Authors: Rodrigues, Rosana S, Bozza, Fernando A, Christian, Paul E, Hoffman, John M, Butterfield, Regan I, Christensen, Carl R, Heilbrun, Marta, Wiggins, Richard H., III, Hunt, Jason P, Bentz, Brandon G, Hitchcock, Ying J, Morton, Kathryn A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Soc Nuclear Med 01.08.2009; Society of Nuclear Medicine
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Breast cancer; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - diagnosis; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - secondary; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - surgery; Contrast Media; Head and Neck Neoplasms - diagnosis; Head and Neck Neoplasms - surgery; Humans; Image Enhancement - methods; Lymphatic Metastasis; Metastasis; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Staging; Patients; Positron-Emission Tomography - methods; Preoperative Care; Protocol; Radiation therapy; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Subtraction Technique; Surgery; Tomography; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods; Whole Body Imaging - methods

The purpose of this study was to compare optimized whole-body (WB) and dedicated high-resolution contrast-enhanced PET/CT protocols and contrast enhanced CT in the preoperative staging of primary squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. A total of 44 patients with clinically M0 squamous cell ca...