Alta captación de 18F-fluorodesoxiglucosa en tomografía por emisión de positrones-tomografía computarizada se asocia

Kensuke Fukuda1, Hirotaka Matsuzaki1,2, Yukihiro Nomura3,4

  • 1Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

ERJ open research
|February 25, 2026
PubMed
Resumen

Las tomografías de tomografía por emisión de positrones (PET)/CT que muestran una mayor captación pulmonar de fluorodesoxiglucosa (FDG) indican un mayor riesgo de progresión del enfisema pulmonar en fumadores actuales y exfumadores.

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