title: PET Imaging of Skull Base Neoplasms.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive, Room H-0101, Stanford, CA 94305-5281, USA. Electronic address: erik.mittra@stanford.edu.
authors.forename: Erik S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Mittra
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive, Room H-0101, Stanford, CA 94305-5281, USA.
authors.forename: Andrei
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Iagaru
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive, Room H-0101, Stanford, CA 94305-5281, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Quon
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive, Room S-047, Stanford, CA 94305-5105, USA.
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fischbein
keywords: Head and neck; MRI; Malignancy; PET/CT; Skull base