PET Imaging of Skull Base Neoplasms

Erik S. Mittra; Andrei Iagaru; Andrew Quon; Nancy Fischbein

doi:10.1016/j.cpet.2008.05.006

PET Imaging of Skull Base Neoplasms

Erik S. Mittra, Andrei Iagaru, Andrew Quon, Nancy Fischbein

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Abstract

The utility of 18-F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (PET) and PET/CT for the evaluation of skull base tumors is incompletely investigated, as a limited number of studies specifically focus on this region with regard to PET imaging. Several patterns can be ascertained, however, by synthesizing the data from various published reports and cases of primary skull base malignancies, as well as head and neck malignancies that extend secondarily to the skull base, including nasopharyngeal carcinoma, nasal cavity and paranasal sinus tumors, parotid cancers, and orbital tumors.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	489-510
Number of pages	22
Journal	PET Clinics
Volume	2
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpet.2008.05.006
State	Published - Oct 2007
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Head and neck
MRI
Malignancy
PET/CT
Skull base

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Radiation
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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