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Evaluation of 18F-FDG PET/CT in Early-Stage Cervical Carcinoma.
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PMID:  21030858     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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INTRODUCTION: : The purpose is to evaluate F-fluorodeoxy glucose-positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) for the detection of cervical carcinoma of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics stages Ib and IIa.
METHODS: : Twenty-two patients with cervical carcinoma were included in this study. Eleven of them were at the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics stage Ib, and the remaining patients were at stage IIa. All the patients underwent F-fluorodeoxy glucose-PET/CT scan, and in 15 patients, additional delayed imaging of pelvis was performed. The PET/CT findings were compared with histopathologic and follow-up results.
RESULTS: : Of the 22 patients, 20 had cervical cancer with abnormal uptake that were detected directly using PET/CT without additional information from delayed imaging of pelvis; the other 2 patients showed lesions with no abnormal uptake. The use of delayed imaging of the pelvis with PET/CT corrected 1 false-negative case. Thus, the accuracy of PET/CT for early-stage cervical carcinoma was 95.45% (21/22). The uptake of early-stage cervical carcinoma showed no statistical significance between the group of stage Ib and the group of stage IIa (P > 0.05). The false-negative rate and negative predictive value of PET/CT imaging in predicting pelvic nodal involvement were 6.25% (1/16) and 93.75%, respectively.
CONCLUSIONS: : PET/CT showed a high accuracy for the diagnosis of early-stage cervical cancer and a high-negative predictive value for predicting the pelvic nodal status in early-stage cervical cancer.
Authors:
Lijuan Yu; Chengye Jia; Xin Wang; Peiou Lu; Mohan Tian; Wenzhi Wang; Ge Lou
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Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The American journal of the medical sciences     Volume:  341     ISSN:  1538-2990     ISO Abbreviation:  Am. J. Med. Sci.     Publication Date:  2011 Feb 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-01-28     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0370506     Medline TA:  Am J Med Sci     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  96-100     Citation Subset:  AIM; IM    
Affiliation:
From the Center of PET/CT (ly, cj, xw, pl, mt, ww) and Department of Gynecology (gl), The Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
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