PET interpretation pitfalls | It’s not always cancer

The purpose of this video is to present some common PET interpretation pitfalls so that physicians can avoid false-positive diagnoses and recognize nonspecific findings on FDG PET images. Timecodes: 0:00 Introduction 0:09 Why is it important to recognize the pitfalls? 0:38 Principles of FDG-PET in oncology. 0:48 What is FDG? 0:58 Uptake of FDG in tumour cells 1:25 Metabolic trapping 1:46 Physiologic uptake sites 2:01 False-positive findings 2:32 Example 1: Tuberculosis 3:09 Example 2: Radiation pneumonitis 3:48 False-negative findings 4:32 Take home message 4:49 The end Music: Bendsound.com