Diagnostic performance of preoperative [18F]FDG-PET/CT for lymph node staging in vulvar cancer: a large single-centre study.

Vittoria RufiniGiorgia GarganeseFrancesco P IeriaTina PasciutoSimona M FragomeniBenedetta GuiAnita FloritFrediano InzaniGian Franco ZannoniGiovanni ScambiaAlessandro GiordanoAngela Collarino

Published in: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (2021)

In this large single-centre series of vulvar cancer patients, [18F]FDG-PET/CT showed good values of sensitivity and NPV in discriminating metastatic from non-metastatic LNs. In routine clinical practice, qualitative analysis is a reliable interpretative criterion making unnecessary commonly used semi-quantitative methods such as SUVmax.

Keyphrases

lymph node
clinical practice
sentinel lymph node
squamous cell carcinoma
small cell lung cancer
papillary thyroid
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
systematic review
patients undergoing
pet ct
rectal cancer
data analysis