Impact of 18F-FDG PET/CT with retrograde filling of the urinary bladder in patients with suspected pelvic malignancies

AMG Vicente, AS Castrejón, AP Muñoz… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2010 - Soc Nuclear Med
The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of selective pelvic PET/CT with
retrograde bladder irrigation in evaluating pelvic pathologies. Methods: Thirty-eight patients …

Unexpected accumulation of F-18 FDG in the urinary bladder after bladder irrigation and retrograde filling with sterile saline: a possible pitfall in PET examination

WY Lin, KB Wang, SC Tsai, SS Sun - Clinical nuclear medicine, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Background: Bladder irrigation and retrograde filling technique has been used to reduce
urinary F-18 FDG (FDG) activity for better image interpretation in patients with pelvic tumors …

Proposal of a new acquisition protocol for bladder cancer visualization with 18F-FDG PET/CT

S Chondrogiannis, MC Marzola… - Clinical Nuclear …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Abstract 18 F-FDG PET/CT has a limited role in the evaluation of locoregional bladder
cancer because of the interference of radioactive urine. Methods proposed to overcome …

Forced diuresis improves the diagnostic accuracy of 18F-FDG PET in abdominopelvic malignancies

EM Kamel, P Jichlinski, JO Prior… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2006 - Soc Nuclear Med
Our aim was to evaluate the role of forced diuresis in improving the diagnostic accuracy of
abdominopelvic 18F-FDG PET. Methods: Thirty-two patients were enrolled. Besides the …

18F-FDG PET/CT delayed images after diuretic for restaging invasive bladder cancer

DA Anjos, ECSC Etchebehere, CD Ramos… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2007 - Soc Nuclear Med
PET with 18F-FDG has been considered of limited value for detection of bladder cancer
because of the urinary excretion of the tracer. The purpose of this study was to investigate …

18F-FDG PET/CT with retrograde filling of the urinary bladder in the assessment of malignant pelvic disease

AMG Vicente, AN García, AP Muñoz, JPP Woll… - Revista Española de …, 2011 - Elsevier
Aim To assess the role of PET/CT with retrograde filling of urinary bladder (RFUB) in the
assessment of pelvic malignancy in patients with urothelial or gynecological tumors. Material …

A pitfall of FDG-PET image interpretation: accumulation of FDG in the dependent area of the urinary bladder after bladder irrigation—the usefulness of the prone …

WY Lin, GU Hung, SC Tsai - Clinical nuclear medicine, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Abstract In F-18 FDG PET studies, retrograde irrigation of the urinary bladder is usually used
to reduce the interference with physiological urinary accumulation of F-18 FDG in patients …

Evaluation of 18F-FDG PET with bladder irrigation in patients with uterine and ovarian tumors

K Koyama, T Okamura, J Kawabe… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2003 - Soc Nuclear Med
The purpose of this study was to evaluate PET using 18F-FDG for gynecologic lesions with
continuous bladder irrigation to eliminate artifacts from the 18F-FDG activity in the bladder …

Is whole-body fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT plus additional pelvic images (oral hydration–voiding–refilling) useful for detecting recurrent bladder cancer?

Z Yang, J Cheng, L Pan, S Hu, J Xu, Y Zhang… - Annals of nuclear …, 2012 - Springer
Objective Because of the urinary excretion of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (18 F-FDG),
FDG-PET or PET/CT is thought of little value in patients with bladder cancer. The purpose of …

Prospective pilot study to evaluate the incremental value of PET information in patients with bladder cancer undergoing 18F-FDG simultaneous PET/MRI

AB Rosenkrantz, KP Friedman, F Ponzo… - Clinical nuclear …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Purpose The aim of this study was to conduct a prospective pilot study comparing the
diagnostic performance of MRI alone and 18 F-FDG simultaneous PET/MRI using a diuresis …