DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
PET/CT
PET-CT
Positron emission tomography - computed tomography (better known by its acronym PET-CT) is a medical imaging device which combines in a single gantry system both a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and an x-ray Computed Tomography, so that images acquired from both devices can be taken sequentially, in the same session from the patient and combined into a single superposed image. Thus, functional imaging obtained by PET, which depicts the spatial distribution of metabolic or biochemical activity in the body can be more precisely aligned or correlated with anatomic imaging obtained by CT scanning...
PET/CT - List of case studies
- Lung Cancer: Well differentiated mixed acinar and bronchoalveolar adenocarcinoma (BAC) of the lung (T1 N0).
-
short_summary: 74-year-old women with thickening in the left lung. The tumor was typified as non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with millimetric parenchymal nodules suspected as secondary. She ...
- Cancer of Colon with Metastases
-
short_summary: 70-year-old-male was diagnosed with colon cancer. After undergoing a right hemicolectomy, hepatic lesions were revealed. Three months after starting chemotherapy a CT revealed r ...
- Pulmonary heteroplasia_3
-
short_summary: 66-year-old female was diagnosed, following persistent cough, with non-operable tumor of her lung with satellite nodules, and chemotherapy was initiated (first Cisplatin and Gem ...
- Advanced Metastatic Colon Cancer
-
short_summary: 58-year-old male suffers from advanced metastatic colon cancer with weakness, severe anemia and synchronic liver metastases. A good partial response has been accomplished by the ...
- Small Cell Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Cervix – additional opinion
-
short_title: Cervix Tumor short_summary: 36-year-old otherwise healthy female presented with an atypical pa ...
- Non Small Cell Lung cancer, Stage 4, S/P Right Pneumonectomy
-
short_title: Non Small Cell Lung cancer short_summary: A 74 years old male was diagnosed 3 years ago with n ...
- Hepatic metastases from prostatic adenocarcinoma
-
short_title: Prostatic adenocarcinoma short_summary: A 66 year old man that was diagnosed with prostate ca ...
- Well differentiated mixed acinar and bronchoalveolar adenocarcinoma of the lung
-
short_summary: An occasion chest X-ray of a 74-year-old female revealed a thickening in her left lung, and the tumor was latter typified as non-small cell lung cancer. Her staging chest CAT sc ...
- Secondary Malignancy in mesentery following primary rectal cancer with multiple colonic polyps
-
69 Diagnosis : Secondary Malignancy in mesentery (PET/CT- Aug 2008), following primary rectal cancer with multiple colonic ... Below is the medical summary. According to the PET/CT there appears to be localized metastasis in the mesentery with lymph ...
- List of Examinations
-
Below is a full list of the examinations mentioned in case studies throughout the site. click on an examination name to view a list of all articles it is mentioned in | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | K | L | ...