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What do you mean by PET scan? Enumerate its indications on patients.

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Question added by Ashraf Mahmood
Date Posted: 2016/04/27
Dhanya Paul
by Dhanya Paul , Registered Nurse , Medstar Day Surgery Centre

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY IS DONE TO KNOW THE CANCER STAGING, TO GUIDE IN BIOPSY, TO SEE MALIGNANCY OF THE CANCER LESION,

SYED ALI SHAHUL HAMEED
by SYED ALI SHAHUL HAMEED , CONSULTANT NEUROSURGEON , MARUTI HOSPITAL

PET IS POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY. IT HELPS TO IDENTIFY METABOLICALLY ACTIVE LESIONS, DEGENERATIVE DISEASES, IDENTIFICATION OF PRIMARY IN OCCULT MALIGNANCIES AND TO ASSESS SPREAD OF LESIONS

Reda Arab Arab
by Reda Arab Arab , Consultant neurosurgery , Banha University Hospitals

positron emission tomography that evaluates blood flow and metabolism,,activity of brain tissue

detectingmalignancy

spread,,, effect of therapy,,recurrence

can be used in stroke and alzheimers disease

Salvador Somaza
by Salvador Somaza , Attending Neurosurgeon , Hospital de Clinicas Caracas

1. Differentiation between tumor and necrosis after radiation therapy or radiosurgery

2. Evaluation of disease dissemination in cases of multiple metastasis

3. Determination of epileptogenic zone on the brain

eri delgado
by eri delgado , Consultant Neurosurgeon , Hospital Enrique Tejera

In neurosurgery it's used for seizure targeting and tumor localization!

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