Imaging

Combined PET/CT finds cancerous lesions standard CT misses

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 18th, 2002

If more doctors had access to a combined PET/CT scanner to examine patients with ovarian or cervical carcinomas, they would likely catch cancerous lesions that would not be found by CT (computed tomography) or ultrasound, according to research presented June 18, 2002, by doctors from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

In two studies presented during the poster session at the Society of Nuclear Medicine in Los Angeles, Todd Blodgett, MD, a fellow in the department of radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, found the advanced scanners identified additional lesions in 80% of a group of patients with ovarian carcinoma and in 45% of a group of...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2002-07-18)

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