Squamous cell carcinoma of the lung other imaging findings

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Maria Fernanda Villarreal, M.D. [2]

Overview

Other imaging findings of squamous cell carcinoma of the lung, include: PET/CT, and pulmonary angiography.

Other Imaging Findings

PET scanning with the tracer fluorine-18 (F-18) fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), called FDG-PET, is widely used in the diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma of the lung, for the following reasons:^[1]^[2]

The CT scan demonstrates abnormalities such as a lung nodule or enlarged lymph nodes. Whereas, the PET scan reveals increased metabolism in structures which contain rapidly growing cancer cells
Intense radiolabeling of tissues with high glucose uptake, such as the brain, the liver, and malignant tumor cells.

On gallium-67-scan, characteristic findings of non-small cell lung cancer, include:^[2]

On pulmonary angiography, findings of squamous cell carcinoma of the lung, include:^[3]

References

↑ Shim SS, Lee KS, Kim BT, Chung MJ, Lee EJ, Han J, Choi JY, Kwon OJ, Shim YM, Kim S (2005). “Non-small cell lung cancer: prospective comparison of integrated FDG PET/CT and CT alone for preoperative staging”. Radiology. 236 (3): 1011–9. doi:10.1148/radiol.2363041310. PMID 16014441.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Steinert HC (2011). “PET and PET-CT of lung cancer”. Methods Mol. Biol. 727: 33–51. doi:10.1007/978-1-61779-062-1_3. PMID 21331927.
↑ Delarue NC, Sanders DE, Silverberg SA (1970). “Complementary value of pulmonary angiography and mediastinoscopy in individualizing treatment for patients with lung cancer”. Cancer. 26 (6): 1370–8. PMID 5483666.

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