ArticleAnnals of nuclear medicine2025
Diagnostic value of
Article in Annals of nuclear medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the diagnostic performance of
methodsThis retrospective study enrolled 67 patients with histopathologically confirmed CM who underwent
resultsA total of 16 patients were confirmed metastasis. The median interval from surgery to metastasis was 20.3 months (range 1-100 months), with 56.3% (9/16) occurring within the first postoperative year. PET/CT detected metastases in 13 patients, missed metastases in 3 patients (2 with small preauricular lymph nodes and 1 with tiny pulmonary metastases), and misdiagnosed 1 patient with parotid benign nodules as metastatic. PET/CT demonstrated a sensitivity of 81.3%, specificity of 98.0%, and accuracy of 94.0%. The most common metastatic sites included lymph nodes (62.5%), bone (37.5%), lung (31.3%), and liver (25.0%), with PET/CT demonstrating detection rates of 95.5%, 100%, 86.7%, and 100%, respectively. PET/CT also identified metastases in rare sites, including the thyroid, cerebellum, adrenal glands, pericardium, pancreas, and subcutaneous/soft tissue. Lymph node metastases in CM predominately occurred in ipsilateral regional nodes (90.1%), with rare bilateral involvement (9.1%). Metastatic lymph nodes in the cervical and submandibular regions showed significantly higher mean SUVmax (11.6 ± 10.5 vs. 2.9 ± 0.9; p = 0.005) and T/NT ratios (6.9 ± 8.2 vs. 3.0 ± 1.0; p = 0.011) compared to inflammatory lymph nodes. SUVmax of metastatic lymph nodes, lung metastases, and liver metastases showed positive correlations with lesion size (p < 0.05 for all). Among metastatic lymph nodes, 53.2% had a short-axis diameter < 10 mm, and 59.1% of bone metastases exhibited no abnormal CT density.
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