Background – Cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) is one of the most lethal malignancies and the follow-up involves, in addition to clinical examination and analysis of tumor markers, several imaging methods such as the Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) exam with 18fluor-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG). The aim of the study is to evaluate the utility of PET/CT in the assessment of the extensi...
Healthy controls reference values (RV) of DatScanTM and its semi-quantification (SQ) adapted to Infanta Cristina’s Hospital in Badajoz were created. It was used with a sample of 120 DaTScanTM tests divided into 4 groups with n = 30. The first one of healthy controls (GI) was used for calculation of RV. It was applied a semiautomatic method for segmentation and posterior calculi of the specific uptake ratios (SU...