PET/CT in Cancer of Unknown Primary

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Seshadri, Nagabhushan (Editor), Eswar, Chinnamani (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Clinicians’ Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging
• Subjects: Medicine.; Nuclear medicine.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Nuclear Medicine.

This pocket book offers a rapid and concise overview of the utility of PET/CT in the management of patients with cancer of unknown primary (CUP). Readers will gain an appreciation of the unique information provided by PET/CT on the molecular and metabolic changes associated with CUP, which can occur...

Table of Contents:

• Causes; Epidemiology; Clinical presentation /Signs and symptoms; Diagnosis; Staging procedures/investigations
• Pathology of Cancer of Unknown Primary
• Management of Cancer of Unknown Primary
• Imaging of Cancer of Unknown Primary
• PET-CT in Cancer of Unknown Primary
• Cancer of Unknown Primary: Pictorial teaching Atlas.