1. En el seguimiento de pacientes tratados de un glioma cerebral de bajo grado, el empleo
de la PET-FCH para la detección de actividad tumoral en progresión ha mostrado una …

La tomografía de emisión de positrones (PET) se basa en la obtención de imágenes
tomográficas de la distribución tridimensional de radiotrazadores que representan procesos …

Non-invasive positron emission tomography (PET) enables the measurement of metabolic
and molecular processes with high sensitivity. PET plays a significant role in the diagnosis …

Glioma, the most frequent primary brain tumor in adults, is a highly infiltrative tumor
exhibiting resistance to most treatments and associated with short survival of patients …

The past decade has seen the identification of many clinical settings in the treatment of
primary brain tumors in which information from fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission …

Purpose The follow-up of treated low-grade glioma (LGG) requires the evaluation of subtle
clinical changes and MRI results. When the result is inconclusive, additional procedures are …

10■ APPLIED RADIOLOGY© www. appliedradiology. com June 2007 sensitivity and
specificity were 94% and 77%, respectively (Figure 2). In this study, patients were imaged 35 …

Objectives: Despite being in use for nearly two decades, the utility of [18F] 2-fluoro-2deoxy-d-
glucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) in the evaluation and treatment of brain …

Over the last two decades the large volume of research involving various brain tracers has
shed invaluable light on the pathophysiology of cerebral neoplasms. Yet the question …

The management of low-grade glioma (LGG) is still challenging because malignant
transformation to a high-grade tumor and/or recurrence after primary therapy may result in …