PMID: 9441282Jan 24, 1998Paper

Comparison of findings with 18-FDG PET and CT in pretherapeutic staging of malignant lymphoma

Nuklearmedizin. Nuclear Medicine
R ThillU Büll

Abstract

Comparison of diagnostic efficiency of FDG-PET and CT regarding localisation, histology, size and FDG-uptake of a lesion. CT- and FDG-PET studies of 27 patients with histologically confirmed malignant lymphoma as primary disease or relapse were evaluated retrospectively. In CT lesions with a diameter (DCT) > 15 mm were regarded as positive. Focal accumulations of FDG, not explained by physiological metabolism, found by visual interpretation in iterative reconstructed PET-scans, were quantified for diameter (DPET) and corrected standardized uptake value (SUV), corrected for partial-volume-effect. Lesions were classified depending on histology and lesion quality (lymph nodes, bulks, extranodal lesions). CT detected 78 lesions in 26 patients, all confirmed by FDG-PET. PET localized 18 additional lesions (+23%); in high grade NHL +25%. Both methods were equally efficient in cervical lymph nodes and lung lesions, in all other regions of lymphatic nodules and in case of liver and spleen lesions PET localized more lesions. SUV was significantly higher in high-grade NHL (19.0) than in low-grade NHL and Hodgkin's disease (10.6 resp. 11.1). DCT and DPET correlated significantly (r = 0.75). Diagnostic efficiency of FDG-PET is equivalent o...Continue Reading

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