Improved imaging of intrahepatic colorectal metastases with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose respiratory-gated positron emission tomography.

Background: In 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT, respiratory motion induces bias in image interpretations (i.e. organ misregistration or lesion omission/underestimation).

Melorheostosis associated with peripheral form spondyloarthropathy: new image with 18-fluoride positron emission tomoscintigraphy coupled to computed tomography.

Melorheostosis is a rare benign bone pathology which can be responsible for incapacitating pain and bone deformations. Its imaging abnormalities are often typical. We describe here the case of a patient with melorheostosis involving the lower limbs, associated with a peripheral form of inflammatory spondyloarthropathy, who underwent FNa positron emission tomography coupled to a computed tomography scan.

Concurrent chemoradiotherapy for clinical stage T2 bladder cancer: report of a single institution.

Objectives: To report our experience with concurrent chemoradiotherapy for clinical Stage T2 bladder cancer.

Methods: From 1996 to 2002, 43 patients were treated with concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy for clinical Stage T2 bladder cancer. After complete bladder transurethral resection, all patients underwent chemotherapy, consisting of one daily infusion of cisplatin at a dose of 15 mg/m2 and 5-fluorouracil at a dose of 400 mg/m(2) on days 1 to 3 (first cycle) and days 15 to 17 (second cycle).