title: [How I investigate ... a broncho-pulmonary cancer by metabolic imaging (PET-18-FDG)].
abstract: Continuing advances in PET imaging have resulted in an improved ability to evaluate thoracic malignancies. Published reports demonstrate that PET provides accurate noninvasive detection of malignancy that is useful in the characterization of a pulmonary solitary nodule and in the mediastinal or extrathoracic staging of known lung cancer. Preliminary studies suggest that PET may also be able to assess the therapeutic response after surgery or radiation therapy.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pneumologie, Université de Liège.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bury
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Duysinx
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Corhay
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bartsch
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rigo
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011379:Prognosis; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18