Role of PET/CT in diagnosis, staging and follow up of HCC
Osama Mohamed Ahmed Montaser;
Abstract
PET/CT is superior to PET and CT alone, and/or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), in the diagnosis and treatment of various primary or metastatic cancers.
Dual modality PET/CT scanning provides accurately fused morphologic (CT) and functional (PET) data sets. A very small tumor is well detected by PET but can be missed by CT. On the other hand, a large tumor with minimal functional deviations may be seen on a CT image, but may not be detected by PET. In both situations, PET/CT would localize the tumor accurately. Thus, PET/CT is a more accurate test than either of its individual components.
PET/CT has advantages over other imaging methods; it can differentiate benign from malignant lesions, staging and restaging tumors, detect functional changes before there is any change in clinical or radiological size of a mass, better in identifying cancer that has spread, making up treatment plan and monitoring tumor response, distinguish viable metabolically active tissue from scars, and it is indicated for restaging in patients with suspected recurrent and metastatic disease.
(18) F- FDG PET/CT is useful in the evaluation of metastasis and poorly differentiated HCC although its role in the diagnosis of well differentiated HCC is more limited. Dual tracer PET CT had an incremental value and complementary advantage when compared with single tracer imaging in the evaluation of HCC.
PET/CT was more sensitive than conventional CT and MRI in detecting suspected vein tumor thrombus in patients with HCC. Tumor thrombus differentiates itself from blood thrombus by its intense uptake of the tracer as a result of its high metabolic neoplastic activity.
PET/CT is very important in patients with unexplained high levels of tumor markers.
It is expected that PET/CT of the liver will play a growing and increasingly important role in detecting and monitoring treatment of tumors involving the liver as well as the assessment of liver that prepared for transplantation in hand with assessment and follow up of liver after transplantation.The main limitations of PET/CT are cost, motion artifact, attenuationcorrection artifact,CT artifact and radiation exposure
Dual modality PET/CT scanning provides accurately fused morphologic (CT) and functional (PET) data sets. A very small tumor is well detected by PET but can be missed by CT. On the other hand, a large tumor with minimal functional deviations may be seen on a CT image, but may not be detected by PET. In both situations, PET/CT would localize the tumor accurately. Thus, PET/CT is a more accurate test than either of its individual components.
PET/CT has advantages over other imaging methods; it can differentiate benign from malignant lesions, staging and restaging tumors, detect functional changes before there is any change in clinical or radiological size of a mass, better in identifying cancer that has spread, making up treatment plan and monitoring tumor response, distinguish viable metabolically active tissue from scars, and it is indicated for restaging in patients with suspected recurrent and metastatic disease.
(18) F- FDG PET/CT is useful in the evaluation of metastasis and poorly differentiated HCC although its role in the diagnosis of well differentiated HCC is more limited. Dual tracer PET CT had an incremental value and complementary advantage when compared with single tracer imaging in the evaluation of HCC.
PET/CT was more sensitive than conventional CT and MRI in detecting suspected vein tumor thrombus in patients with HCC. Tumor thrombus differentiates itself from blood thrombus by its intense uptake of the tracer as a result of its high metabolic neoplastic activity.
PET/CT is very important in patients with unexplained high levels of tumor markers.
It is expected that PET/CT of the liver will play a growing and increasingly important role in detecting and monitoring treatment of tumors involving the liver as well as the assessment of liver that prepared for transplantation in hand with assessment and follow up of liver after transplantation.The main limitations of PET/CT are cost, motion artifact, attenuationcorrection artifact,CT artifact and radiation exposure
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| Title | Role of PET/CT in diagnosis, staging and follow up of HCC | Other Titles | تشخيص سرطان الكبد الأولي بواسطة إدماج التصوير الطبقي بالبوزيترون المنبعث مع الأشعة المقطعية | Authors | Osama Mohamed Ahmed Montaser | Issue Date | 2015 |
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