Foehrenbach H, Edeline V, Bonardel G, Neuenschwander S
Service de médecine nucléaire, hôpital d'instruction des armées du Val-de-Grâce, Paris, France.
Arch Pediatr. 2004 Apr;11(4):378-82. doi: 10.1016/j.arcped.2003.12.022.
Positron emission tomography is the last non invasive imaging technique introduced in clinical practice. Its remarkable efficiency for cancer diagnosis and for the optimization of the therapeutical management of adult patients in oncology is now well known. Pathophysiology of tumors being comparable, the same results are expected for children. Highly interesting reports have already established such good performances about lymphoma or bone sarcomas. Complementary data are necessary to define the optimal place of PET in the care of children cancer because PET can be regarded as only at the eve of its development with the upraising of new technical possibilities and new radiopharmaceuticals providing various and complementary informations about tumors.
正电子发射断层扫描是临床实践中引入的最后一种非侵入性成像技术。其在癌症诊断以及肿瘤学中成年患者治疗管理优化方面的显著效率现已广为人知。由于肿瘤的病理生理学具有可比性，预计儿童也会有相同的结果。关于淋巴瘤或骨肉瘤，已有非常有趣的报告证实了其良好的性能。由于随着新技术可能性的出现以及新放射性药物的研发，能提供有关肿瘤的各种补充信息，正电子发射断层扫描（PET）可被视为仍处于发展初期，因此需要补充数据来确定PET在儿童癌症治疗中的最佳位置。
