Significación de captaciones incidentales en colon en estudios 18F-FDG PET-TAC en pacientes sin tumor colorrectal conocido. Valoración del impacto en el manejo del paciente

Incidental focal uptake in colorectal location on oncologic FDG PET and PET/CT studies: Histopathological findings and clinical significances

“…27 It is widely known that SUVmax value orients about grade of malignancy of tumor. Unlike results of most of the reviewed literature, 9,12,13 we have found that measurement of SUVmax would be a good marker for discrimination between benign and precancerous/cancerous lesions. Other more recent studies have shown that a SUVmax cut off is related with a high probability of advanced colorectal neoplasm.…”