Abstract:
OBJECTIVE:To investigate the clinical value in detecting occult primary tumors with (18)F-FDG PET-CT whole body imaging. METHODS:120 patients with unknown primary origin were referred for (18)F-FDG PET-CT whole body imaging. All patients were performed (18)F-FDG PET-CT whole body scan. PET-CT images were interpreted by visual inspection and semi-quantitative analysis (standardized uptake value, SUV). Histopathological and formal clinical follow-up findings were used to assess the value of FDG PET-CT. RESULTS:FDG PET-CT was able to detect the primary tumor in 54/120 patients (42.5%). The primary tumors were confirmed by histopathologic and formal clinical follow-up findings, and located in the head and neck (n=17), the lung (n=19), the breast (n=2), the esophagus (n=1), the stomach (n=2), the bile ducts (n=1), the pancreas (n=3), the co1on (n=3), the ovary (n=2), the prostate (n=l), others (n=3). FDG PET results were proved false positive in 9 patients (7.5%), which were located in the head and neck (n=3), the lung (n=1), the gastric (n=1), the colon (n=2), the ovary (n=1), the prostate (n=l). During the clinical follow-up of median 32 months (range, 2-45 months), primary tumor was found in only 5 patients of 60 cases unidentified by PET-CT (breast cancer, gastric cancer, co1on cancer, prostate cancer and urinary tumors, respectively). The sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of (18)F-FDG PET-CT in the detection of the primary tumor site were 91.5%, 85.2%, and 88.3%, respectively. CONCLUSION:(18)F-FDG PET-CT whole body imaging is both a noninvasive and a very sensitive tomographic whole-body imaging modality, allowing for the detection of a primary tumor and complete tumor staging in single examination, which can contribute substantially to selecting appropriate therapeutic methods and evaluating prognosis. Perhaps (18)F-FDG PET-CT whole body imaging should be used as a first-line imaging modality for patients with carcinoma of unknown primary rather than using it after other diagnostic procedures have failed to identify a primary tumor.
journal_name
Cancer Epidemioljournal_title
Cancer epidemiologyauthors
Han A,Xue J,Hu M,Zheng J,Wang Xdoi
10.1016/j.canep.2012.03.002subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-10-01 00:00:00pages
470-5issue
5eissn
1877-7821issn
1877-783Xpii
S1877-7821(12)00034-3journal_volume
36pub_type
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