Yu Chang-hai, Wang Tao, Yin Da-yi, Sun Yu-e, Tian Jia-he, Yao Shu-lin
Department of Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital of PLA, Beijing 100853, China.
Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2004 Feb 2;84(3):229-32.
To investigate the value of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in patients with small cell lung cancer.
From February 2000 to July 2003, 17 patients with small cell lung cancer were imaged with FDG-PET. FDG-PET scans were analyzed by visual method. The FDG-PET results were compared with the pathological results and results of follow-up survey.
15 primary tumors were all FDG avid. By visual method 63 areas metastatic lymph nodes in 15 cases were revealed and more distant metastases outside the hemithoraxes were confirmed by FDG-PET than by routine examinations. FDG-PET corrected the diagnosis 5 cases from local disease (LD) to extended disease (ED).
FDG-PET has great value in staging and treatment of patients with small cell lung cancer.
