PET/CT in Head and Neck Cancer

Description

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Clinical Background of Head and Neck Tumours (Tom Roques)....Pages 1-6 Pathology of Head and Neck Tumours (Katherine Sisson, Tom Roques)....Pages 7-10 Management of Head and Neck Tumours (Tom Roques)....Pages 11-16 Radiological Imaging in Head and Neck Tumours (Julian Kabala, Matthew Beasley)....Pages 17-27 18F FDG PET/CT: Normal Variants, Artefacts and Pitfalls in Head and Neck Malignancy (Nilendu C. Purandare, Archi Agrawal, Sneha Shah, Venkatesh Rangarajan)....Pages 29-42 PET/CT in Head and Neck Tumours (Wai Lup Wong)....Pages 43-55 PET/CT in Head and Neck Tumours: Treatment Sequelae Mimicking Active Disease—A Pictorial Atlas (Wai Lup Wong)....Pages 57-66 Back Matter ....Pages 67-89