title: Spectrum of malignant pleural and pericardial disease on FDG PET/CT.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this article is to illustrate a wide spectrum of malignant primary and secondary pleural and pericardial diseases imaged with (18)F-FDG PET/CT.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A wide variety of malignant pleural and pericardial diseases can be detected, staged, and monitored by FDG PET/CT. Although the PET/CT findings are often nonspecific, the aim of this atlas is to show that the spectrum of pleural and pericardial disease that can be evaluated with PET/CT is much broader than current literature would suggest. PET/CT readers and oncologists should be aware of the wide variety of malignancies that can affect the pleura and pericardium and some of the patterns of FDG uptake that can be observed in these cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Brandon Regional Health Centre, 150 McTavish Ave E, Brandon, MB R7A 2B3, Canada.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Makis
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ciarallo
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hickeson
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rush
authors.forename: Javier A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Novales-Diaz
authors.forename: Vilma
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Derbekyan
authors.forename: Jerome
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Laufer
authors.forename: Jerry
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stern
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lisbona
mesh_terms: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010496:Pericardium / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18