Clinical Study

18F-fluoro-L-thymidine Positron Emission Tomography for Mucosal Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Treated with Definitive Chemoradiation: A Pilot Study of Nodal Assessment and Tracer Safety

Figure 1

(a) An avid left retropharyngeal lymph node on FDG-PET (left panel) was not avid on FLT-PET (right panel). (b) FDG-PET staged this patient as N0 (left panel) while FLT-PET detected avid lymph nodes on both sides of the neck (right panel).
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