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PET / CT indications

A. Oncology

  1. Staging the malignant Cancers that have treatment (Small Cell Lung Cancer)
  2. check for malignant cancers before initiating treatments (GIST)
  3. check for suspicious masses (Solitary Pul. Nodule)
  4. check the response of cancer masses to the treatment (lymphoma, head and neck tumors)
  5. check for the recurrence or the presence of any remaining cancerogenic masses after treatment (lymphoma, seminoma)
  6. Determine the prognosis in cancer patients (lymphoma, head and neck tumors)
  7. Determine the therapeutic strategy (esophageal cancer)
  8. Sampling guidance (pleural biopsy in mesothelium or lung biopsy in lung cancers)
  9. Helping in the designing of radiation therapy (lung caners, womens associated cancers)
  10. Finding the hidden source of metastases (head and neck cancers)
  11. Confirm the Transformation of low malignancy tumors to malignancies with a high-grade malignancy
  12. Differentiation between “irradiation-induced necrosis” from “tumor recurrence” (brain cancers)
  13. Early detection of some cancers before other imaging methods can ,such as CT or MRI scan (breast cancer, colon, and lung)

B. Cardiology

  1. Evaluation of myocardial viability after myocardial infarction
  2. Investigate myocardial inflammatory diseases (sarcoidosis)

C. Neurology

  1. check for Cognitive Disease (Alzheimer’s, Pique)
  2. check for brain tumors
  3. locate the origin of epilepsy
  4. check for motor disorders

D. Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases 

  1. Osteomyelitis
  2. Check fevers with unknown origin
  3. Investigate the infection in cardiac, vascular and bone Prosthesis
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