Comparative Efficacy of Positron Emission Tomography with FDG and Computed Tomographic Scanning in Preoperative Staging of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

作者：Naresh C. Gupta, Geoffrey M. Graeber, John Rogers, Harry A. Bishop · 发表于：Annals of Surgery · 年份：1999 · DOI：10.1097/00000658-199902000-00018 · 被引用次数：111 · 研究领域：Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment、Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications、Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

OBJECTIVE: To determine the sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of positron emission tomography with 2-fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (PET-FDG) in the preoperative staging (N and M staging) of patients with lung cancer. The authors wanted to compare the efficacy of PET scanning with currently used computed tomography (CT) scanning. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Results of whole-body PET-FDG imaging and CT scans were compared with histologic findings for the presence or absence of lymph node disease or metastatic sites. Sampling of mediastinal lymph nodes was performed using mediastinoscopy or thoracotomy. RESULTS: PET-FDG imaging was significantly more sensitive, specific, and accurate for detecting N disease than CT. PET changed N staging in 35% and M staging in 11% of patients. CT scans helped in accurate anatomic localization of 6/57 PET lymph node abnormalities. CONCLUSION: PET-FDG is a reliable method for preoperative staging of patients with lung cancer and would help to optimize management of these patients. Accurate lymph node staging of lung cancer may be ideally performed by simultaneous review of PET and CT scans.