Imaging spectrum of peritoneal carcinomatosis on FDG PET/CT.

Jpn J Radiol

Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Tata Memorial Hospital, Dr E Borges Marg, Mumbai, 400012, India.

Published: October 2014

Recognition of patterns has always been extremely important in cross-sectional imaging. Peritoneal involvement, both primary and as dissemination from abdominopelvic malignancies, is manifested in different forms, purely because of anatomical complexity. We studied series of peritoneal involvement by (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography fusion imaging and derived patterns of tracer uptake on maximum intensity projection and cross-sectional fusion images.

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