Abtahi Seyed Mahdi, Elmi Azadeh, Hedgire Sandeep S, Ho Yuen Chi, Pourjabbar Sarvenaz, Singh Sarabjeet, Kalra Mannudeep, Harisinghani Mukesh
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Clin Imaging. 2014 May-Jun;38(3):292-5. doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2013.12.017. Epub 2014 Jan 6.
To differentiate imaging characteristics of celiac ganglia from metastatic lesion on positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) in patients with lung cancer and correlate these findings to postmortem multidetector row computed tomography (MDCT).
One hundred twenty-nine patients were included. Imaging characteristics and fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) avidity of the celiac ganglia were recorded. Postmortem MDCT of 20 subjects were reviewed.
Celiac ganglia were identified unilaterally in 127 and bilaterally in 108 patients without abnormal FDG uptake. Postmortem images showed celiac ganglia in all cases with no significant difference compared to our patients.
Familiarity with CT characteristics and FDG-avidity of celiac ganglia enable us to distinguish them from metastatic lesions in their vicinity.
鉴别肺癌患者腹腔神经节在正电子发射断层扫描-计算机断层扫描（PET-CT）上与转移灶的影像特征，并将这些发现与尸检多层螺旋计算机断层扫描（MDCT）结果相关联。
纳入129例患者。记录腹腔神经节的影像特征和氟脱氧葡萄糖（FDG）摄取情况。回顾了20例受试者的尸检MDCT结果。
127例患者腹腔神经节单侧显影，108例双侧显影，FDG摄取无异常。尸检图像显示所有病例均有腹腔神经节，与我们的患者相比无显著差异。
熟悉腹腔神经节的CT特征和FDG摄取情况有助于我们将其与附近的转移灶区分开来。
