When in a patient more than one tumour in the same or a different organ is diagnosed,
multiple primary tumours may be present. For epidemiological studies, different definitions of …

The objective of this review is to summarise the available evidence on the frequency and
management of incidental findings in imaging diagnostic tests. Original articles were …

Response is the logical outcome measure of a treatment in a clinical or research setting.
Objective response assessment involves the use of a test to segregate patients who are …

Functional imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) is playing an increasingly
important role in the diagnosis and staging of malignant disease, image-guided therapy …

Background: The expanding use of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography
(18F-FDG PET) has led to the identification of increasing numbers of patients with an …

Background: Multiple primary malignant tumors (MPMTs) are defined as two or more
histologically distinct malignancies in one individual, standard treatments for MPMTs are not …

PURPOSE: To compare the diagnostic accuracy of positron emission tomography/computed
tomography (PET/CT), pelvic Doppler ultrasonography (US), abdomino-pelvic computed …

Context: Thyroid incidentaloma diagnosed by 2-[18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose positron
emission tomography/computed tomography (F-18-FDG-PET/CT) is defined as a thyroid …

In this retrospective study, we investigated whether the 18F-FDG uptake pattern and CT
findings improved the accuracy over the standardized uptake value (SUV) for differentiating …

PET/CT is a relatively new imaging technology, whose undoubted advantages are valuable
in clinical oncology as well as in all fields of diagnosis, staging, and treatment. The hardware …