Review Article
Clinical Applications of FDG PET and PET/CT in Head and Neck Cancer
Table 4
Studies evaluating the performance of 18F-FDG PET and PET/CT for the detection of recurrent disease in head and neck cancers.
| Authors year | Number of patients | Sensitivity | Specificity | Accuracy | Notes |
| Abgral et al. [77], 2009 | 91 | 100% | 85% | 90% | FDG PET/CT | Wang et al. [78],2009 | 44 | 100% | 98% | 98% | Prospecrive PET performance CT | Cermik et al. [79], 2007 | 50 | 83% | 93% | | | Álvarez Pérez et al. [80], 2007 | 60 | 98% | 90% | | Prospective | Salaun et al. [81], 2007 | 30 | 100% | 95% | 97% | | Goerres et al. [82], 2004 | 26 | 91% | 93% | | Prospective | Kubota et al. [83], 2004 | 36 | 90% | 78% | 81% | Prospective Accuracy significantly higher than CT/MR |
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