This pocket book is an up-to-date guide to the diagnostic imaging of head and neck cancers. The focus is particularly on FDG PET/CT, with coverage of the basic principles, clinical indications, typical and atypical appearances, normal variations and artifacts, advantages, limitations, and pitfalls. Consideration is also given to emerging roles for PET/CT in head and neck cancer, including radiotherapy planning and treatment response monitoring, and to radiotracers beyond FDG. In addition, succinct information is provided on clinical presentation, diagnosis, staging, pathology, management, and other diagnostic imaging techniques. A brief discourse on the practice of guideline adoption is included. The book is published within the Springer series Clinicians' Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging (compiled under the auspices of the British Nuclear Medicine Society) and will be an excellent asset for clinicians, nuclear medicine physicians, radiologists, radiographers, technologists, and nurses who work in the field of head and neck cancer.

Provides an up-to-date review of the role of PET/CT in head and neck cancer Critically appraises PET/CT in relation to other state of the art diagnostic tests Offers clinical tips on interpretation of PET/CT scans that are challenging to analyze Draws on the clinical experience of experts in the field

Autorentext
Wai Lup Wong , MD, Consultant Radiologist (Nuclear Medicine), Mount Vernon Cancer Centre

Inhalt

Clinical background of Head and Neck Tumours.- Pathology of Head and Neck Tumours.- Management of Head and Neck Tumours.- Radiological imaging in Head and Neck Tumours.- 18F FDG PET-CT: Normal variants, artifacts and pitfalls in head and neck tumours.- PET/CT in Head and Neck Tumours.