[Epidemiology of burns in mayotte in 2022: an exhaustive study on a particular health area].

The last French department, created in 2011, Mayotte still lacks its integration into official health statistics, making it difficult to adapt care facilities to needs, as well as planning for prevention. We conducted a retrospective epidemiological study including all patients treated in the Mayotte burns unit between February 1, 2022 and January 31, 2023 (339 patients). We first studied burn patients on the island, i.

Case-control study of the characteristics and risk factors of hot clot artefacts on 18F-FDG PET/CT.

Introduction: The pulmonary Hot Clot artifact (HCa) on 18F-FDG PET/CT is a poorly understood phenomenon, corresponding to the presence of a focal tracer uptake without anatomical lesion on combined CTscan. The hypothesis proposed in the literature is of microembolic origin. Our objectives were to determine the incidence of HCa, to analyze its characteristics and to identify associated factors.

Clinical application of a population-based input function (PBIF) for a shortened dynamic whole-body FDG-PET/CT protocol in patients with metastatic melanoma treated by immunotherapy.

Background: The aim was to investigate the feasibility of a shortened dynamic whole-body (dWB) FDG-PET/CT protocol and Patlak imaging using a population-based input function (PBIF), instead of an image-derived input function (IDIF) across the 60-min post-injection period, and study its effect on the FDG influx rate (Ki) quantification in patients with metastatic melanoma (MM) undergoing immunotherapy.

Methods: Thirty-seven patients were enrolled, including a PBIF modeling group (n = 17) and an independent validation cohort (n = 20) of MM from the ongoing prospective IMMUNOPET2 trial. All dWB-PET data were acquired on Vision 600 PET/CT systems.

New Automated Method for Lung Functional Volumes Delineation with Lung Perfusion PET/CT Imaging.

Background: Gallium-68 lung perfusion PET/CT is an emerging imaging modality for the assessment of regional lung function, especially to optimise radiotherapy (RT) planning. A key step of lung functional avoidance RT is the delineation of lung functional volumes (LFVs) to be integrated into radiation plans. However, there is currently no consistent and reproducible delineation method for LFVs.