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Positron emission tomography: poor sensitivity for occult tonsillar cancer

Vishad Nabili1, Brita Zaia, Keith E Blackwell

  • 1Division of Head and Neck Surgery-Otolaryngology, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. vnabili@ucla.edu <vnabili@ucla.edu>

American Journal of Otolaryngology
|May 15, 2007
PubMed
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Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scans show low sensitivity for detecting primary tonsil cancers, with a high false-negative rate. However, PET/CT remains valuable for identifying other unknown head and neck tumors.

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