PET-CT: Rare Findings and Diseases

First atlas of its kind
Includes numerous clinical cases documented with color images
Presents cases depicted with other PET tracers as well as FDG
Will boost the confidence of nuclear medicine physicians when reporting rare diseases and findings
PET-CT is increasingly being employed in the diagnosis of both oncological and non-oncological patients, yet nuclear
medicine physicians may have only limited practical experience of rare diseases. Furthermore, the more frequent use of
PET-CT scans is accompanied by an increasing likelihood of encountering rare findings that may be difficult to
recognize and interpret.



Against this background, this unique atlas documents a large number of clinical cases that will help practitioners to
identify findings and diseases that, though rare, are sufficiently frequent to be encountered in routine practice. Two
types of cases are presented: patients evaluated for rare diseases and patients evaluated for standard diseases in whom
atypical collateral PET findings were detected. Each reported case includes a brief description of the clinical
history, representative color PET-CT images obtained using FDG or other tracers, a short explanation of the disease and
findings, and, when necessary, relevant references. This atlas will support practitioners in their daily practice and
enable them to make conclusive reports of PET-CT scans that would otherwise have been inconclusive!

Content Level ?Professional/practitioner

Keywords ?11C-Choline, 11C-Methionine - 18F-FDG - PET-CT - Rare diseases - Rare findings

Related subjects ?Nuclear Medicine - Oncology & Hematology - Radiology