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Published on: July 5, 2021
PET Imaging of Skull Base Neoplasms
Erik S Mittra1, Andrei Iagaru1, Andrew Quon1
1Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive, Room H-0101, Stanford, CA 94305-5281, USA.
Abstract:
The utility of 18-F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (PET) and PET/CT for the evaluation of skull base tumors is incompletely investigated, as a limited number of studies specifically focus on this region with regard to PET imaging. Several patterns can be ascertained, however, by synthesizing the data from various published reports and cases of primary skull base malignancies, as well as head and neck malignancies that extend secondarily to the skull base, including nasopharyngeal carcinoma, nasal cavity and paranasal sinus tumors, parotid cancers, and orbital tumors.
