Comparison of whole-body 18F-FDG-PET/CT with 18F-FDG-PET/CT limited to skull base to upper abdomen for primary staging of lung cancer - a retrospective explorative analysis

• Published in: Nuklearmedizin. Nuclear medicine Vol. 64; no. 2; p. 150
• Main Authors: Schulz, Lukas, Funk, Georg-Christian, Kirchbacher, Klaus, Egger, Elena, Müser, Nino, Mirzaei, Siroos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; German
• Published: Germany 01.04.2025
• Subjects: Abdomen - diagnostic imaging; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Female; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; Humans; Lung Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Lung Neoplasms - pathology; Male; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Staging; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography - methods; Retrospective Studies; Skull Base - diagnostic imaging; Whole Body Imaging - methods

The gold standard for ruling out distant metastases as part of primary staging in lung cancer is whole-body F-FDG-PET/CT, but this method is resource-intensive. Recent evidence suggests that examining only the thorax and upper abdomen may be sufficient 1 2 3. If a limited F-FDG-PET/CT approach prove...