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From: [18F]FDG uptake of bone marrow on PET/CT for predicting distant recurrence in breast cancer patients after surgical resection

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Maximum intensity projection (a), fused coronal PET/CT (b), and fused transaxial PET/CT (c, d), images of a 41-year-old woman with invasive breast cancer. Primary breast cancer lesion (arrow) showed intensely increased [18F]FDG uptake with maximum SUV of 17.30, MTV of 4.72 cm3, and TLG of 28.00 g (a, c). Six spheroid-shaped VOIs were manually drawn over the vertebral body of thoracic and lumbar spines (b). An isocontour using a cutoff SUV of 75% of the maximum SUV of VOI was automatically produced within each VOI of the vertebral body, and mean SUV of voxels within the isocontour was measured, showing mean SUV of L1 spine of 2.49 (d). BM SUV and BLR of the patient were 2.15 and 1.15, respectively. The patient was diagnosed with T2N0 stage and underwent curative surgical resection of the cancer lesion. Pulmonary metastases were found 21.9 months after the operation

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