Clinical Usefulness of 18F-FDG PET/CT for Staging Cancer of the External Auditory Canal

Objective: Our objective was to evaluate the clinical usefulness of positron emission tomography/computed tomography using 2-deoxy-2-[F-18]fluoro-D-glucose (FDG-PET/CT) for staging cancer of the external auditory canal (EAC). Study Design: Retrospective case review. Setting: Tertiary referral center. Patients: Twenty-three patients (seven men, 16 women, mean age of 59.6-year-old) who underwent FDG-PET/CT and high-resolution CT within 1 month for staging cancer of the EAC between July 2006 and December 2014 were enrolled in this study. Intervention: FDG-PET/CT, high-resolution CT. Main Outcome Measures: Sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy for diagnosing nodal metastases. Results: Most primary tumors were FDG-avid and maximum standardized uptake values were 7.72 ± 3.04 and 9.06 ± 3.94 for the early (60 min) and delayed (120 min) phases of FDG-PET/CT, respectively. FDG-PET/CT was capable of detecting small nodal metastases (short axis

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