title: Case studies in PET.
abstract: In recent years primary care providers have been increasingly called on to broaden their management of patients, particularly in their role as gatekeepers to reduce healthcare costs. Obviously a wide spectrum of specialty involvement exists, ranging from the classic family practitioner managing all of the common diseases and referring challenging cases to specialists, to the internist with a background and interest geared toward handling more specialized neurologic, cardiac, or oncologic diseases. Whatever the case, primary care providers can have a great impact on diagnosis and management of illness by consulting with the radiologist about the use of the emerging technology of positron emission tomography (PET).
authors.affiliation: Metro Region P.E.T. Center, Woodburn Nuclear Medicine, Annandale, Virginia 22003, USA.
authors.forename: E H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Norby
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary; D008875:Middle Aged; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000379:methods*