title: The role of ¹⁸F-FDG PET or ¹⁸F-FDG-PET/CT in the evaluation of solitary pulmonary nodules.
abstract: Even with the recent advance in diagnostic tools and techniques, solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs) remains a major clinical challenge for all doctors involved in their study. There are a wide range of diagnoses of benign and malignant lesions that can manifest as SPNs. Positron emission tomography (PET) or positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) makes a great contribution to the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of SPNs due to the high sensitivity of pathological accumulation of (18)F-FDG. Owing to integrates the anatomical morphological and metabolic aspects in a single examination, high sensitivity and the ability to perform whole-body scans, combined PET/CT improving overall diagnosis accuracy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China.
authors.forename: Wenbo
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China. Electronic address: phua1973@163.com.
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China.
authors.forename: Qiong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D064847:Multimodal Imaging / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D003074:Solitary Pulmonary Nodule / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
keywords: (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG); Positron emission tomography (PET); Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT); Solitary pulmonary nodules (SPN)