The Role of FDG-PET in the Preoperative Assessment of N-Staging in Head and Neck Cancer
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Acta Oto-Laryngologica
- Vol. 116 (2) , 332-335
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00016489609137852
Abstract
This prospective study based on 48 patients showed that FDG-PET has a significantly higher sensitivity for the detection of lymph node metastases compared with palpation and it appears that FDG-PET has a similar sensitivity to CT-scanning. According to our data, FDG-PET is a highly specific method in the evaluation of neck nodes. This new imaging technique allows a tridimensional study and is easy to interpret. Therefore, FDG-PET seems to be a valuable imaging technique for the detection of cervical lymph node metastasis.Keywords
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