Impact of 18F-FDG-PET/CT in detection of the primary site and change management in patients with metastases of unknown primary. | ||||
| Egyptian Journal Nuclear Medicine | ||||
| Article 4, Volume 19, Issue 2, December 2019, Page 36-49 PDF (464.76 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Paper, PET/CT | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/egyjnm.2019.106659 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Talaat, O.1; Maher, Sh.2; Hassan, M.3; Farouk, Sh.4 | ||||
| 1Oncology and Nuclear Medicine department, National Cancer Institute, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Radiology department, Faculty of Medicine, Egypt. | ||||
| 3Surgical Oncology Department, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt. | ||||
| 4Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Aim of work: To evaluate the significance of PET/CT in detection of the primary of metastases of unknown origin and its role in changing management. Patients and methods: A prospective analysis of 123 patients, with pathologically proved or clinico-radio logically suspected metastatic lesions of unidentified primary. All patients had previous examination and investigational check-up tests including labs, radiologic studies and histopathology before undergoing 18FDG PET/CT study, with a follow-up period of 12 months. Results: This study included 66 males and 57 females with mean age 53.98±12.9 (range=23-85) years. Main sites of presenting metastases were bone (29%) and lymph nodes (22%) followed by liver (17%) and brain (11%). Histopathology revealed poorly differentiated carcinomain 42% of patients; however, 27% of patients came with no pathology. PET/CT identified the primary site in 71 patients with commonest site in 16 patients in lung followed by pancreas and breast (9 patients each). False positive was evident in 6 patients, and it excluded malignancy in 19 patients. False negative results were found in 27 studies, 24 of which remained unknown till the end of follow-up period. Sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV and accuracy were 72%, 76%, and 79%, 41% and 73% respectively. PET/CT identified additional sites of metastases in 64 patients. PET/CT altered the management in 90 patients by avoiding unnecessary chemotherapy in negative patients or providing treatment targeting known primary tumor, including surgery with curative intent in 9% of patients. During the follow-up period of the 71 patients, 12 patients achieved complete response, 12 patients showed partial response and 25 patients had stable disease. Conclusion: 18F-FDG PET/CT is additiveimaging modality that help in early detection of the primary malignant site in patients with MUO and so enabling selection of suitable management protocols that might improve patients' outcome. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| MUO; 18FDG PET/CT | ||||
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