Introduction: Children with neuroblastoma have widely divergent outcomes, ranging from
cure in> 90% of patients with low risk disease to< 50% for those with high risk disease …

Neuroblastoma is the most common extra-cranial solid tumor of childhood and the most
common in the first year of life. It is a unique malignancy in that infants often present with …

Purpose More than two decades ago, an international working group established the
International Neuroblastoma Response Criteria (INRC) to assess treatment response in …

Neuroblastoma (NB), the most common extracranial tumor of childhood, is a cancer of
primordial neural crest cells that give rise to sympathetic neural ganglia and adrenal …

Neuroblastoma is an enigmatic disease entity; some tumors disappear spontaneously
without any therapy, while others progress with a fatal outcome despite the implementation …

PREAMBLE The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) is an
international scientific and professional organization founded in 1954 to promote the …

Nuclear medicine has a central role in the diagnosis, staging, response assessment and
long-term follow-up of neuroblastoma, the most common solid extracranial tumour in …

The aim of this document is to provide general information about mIBG scintigraphy in
cancer patients. The guidelines describe the mIBG scintigraphy protocol currently used in …

The clinical course of neuroblastoma is more heterogeneous than any other malignant
disease. Most low-risk patients experience regression after limited or even no …

Criteria for evaluation of disease extent by 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine scans in
neuroblastoma: a report for the International Neuroblastoma Risk Group (INRG) Task Force …