Differentiation of malignant and benign cardiac tumors using 18F-FDG PET/CT

K Rahbar, H Seifarth, M Schäfers… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2012 - Soc Nuclear Med
… The published cases of 18 F-FDG PET uptake in cardiac tumors are in line with the results …
cardiac tumors typically exhibit a high 18 F-FDG uptake. SUV max was available in 7 cardiac

18F-FDG-PET/CT imaging in cardiac tumors: illustrative clinical cases and review of the literature

M Saponara, V Ambrosini, M Nannini… - … in medical oncology, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
… Herein we report four illustrative clinical cases of patients affected by cardiac tumors,
referred to our institution. F-FDG PET/CT imaging was performed during the patients’ oncologic …

Assessment of cardiac tumors by 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging: Histological correlation and clinical outcomes

J Meng, H Zhao, Y Liu, D Chen, M Hacker, Y Wei… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
… We analyzed 38 patients with cardiac tumors who underwent 18 F-FDG PET/CT and
followed for median 8.5 ± 12.5 months. SUV max and TBR max (maximum tumor-to-background …

Incremental value of FDG-PET in the evaluation of cardiac masses

P Martineau, V Dilsizian… - Current Cardiology …, 2021 - Springer
… Finally, FDG-PET enables staging of patients with primary malignant cardiac tumor, … malignant
cardiac tumors to be 0.008% [7], with angiosarcoma, the most common primary malignant …

Role of 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging in cardiac and pericardial masses

H Yin, W Mao, H Tan, N Zhu, Q Wan, J Shi, L Qiu… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
… , so quantification of 18 F-FDG uptake can support the noninvasive … cardiac tumors. The
present study showed that malignant cardiac tumors usually exhibited a high 18 F-FDG uptake, …

PET-CT 18F-FDG applications in cardiac tumors

SCS Brandão, LT Dompieri - Arq Bras Cardiol: Imagem cardiovasc, 2019 - abcimaging.org
… (PET-CT) with fluorodeoxyglucose-F18 (18 F-FDG) is a technique that is still little used,
especially in primary cardiac tumors. … and benign tumors, thus preventing cardiac biopsies and …

Integrated 18F-FDG PET/MR imaging in the assessment of cardiac masses: a pilot study

F Nensa, E Tezgah, TD Poeppel… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
… whether integrated 18 F-FDG PET/MR imaging could improve the diagnostic workup of cardiac
tumors. Interpreted independently, we found both 18 F-FDG PET and MR imaging to yield …

18F-FDG PET/CT in diagnostic and prognostic evaluation of patients with cardiac masses: a retrospective study

C Qin, F Shao, F Hu, W Song, Y Song, J Guo… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
… 18 F-FDG PET/CT is a reliable tool in the diagnosis of cardiac masses. From the results of
this study, we propose an 18 F-FDG PET/CT diagnostic approach for cardiac masses shown in …

How to Differentiate Benign versus Malignant Cardiac and Paracardiac 18F FDG Uptake at Oncologic PET/CT

AH Maurer, M Burshteyn, LP Adler, RM Steiner - Radiographics, 2011 - pubs.rsna.org
… of cardiac FDG activity that can be seen in oncologic FDG PET/CT studies. These include
focal and regional patterns of increased FDG … The most common primary cardiac tumor is the …

[HTML][HTML] Scope of PET imaging in the evaluation of cardiac tumors

S Jain, V Dhingra, B Girdhani - Cancer Treatment and Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
FDG PET/CT helps determine 18F-FDG PET/CT is a crucial molecular imaging modality to
assess and differentiate benign and malignant cardiac tumors … -FDG PET/CT in cardiac tumors