Journal article
Guidelines on nuclear medicine imaging in neuroblastoma
Z Bar-Sever, L Biassoni, B Shulkin, G Kong, MS Hofman, E Lopci, I Manea, J Koziorowski, R Castellani, A Boubaker, B Lambert, T Pfluger, H Nadel, S Sharp, F Giammarile
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | SPRINGER | Published : 2018
Abstract
Nuclear medicine has a central role in the diagnosis, staging, response assessment and long-term follow-up of neuroblastoma, the most common solid extracranial tumour in children. These EANM guidelines include updated information on 123I-mIBG, the most common study in nuclear medicine for the evaluation of neuroblastoma, and on PET/CT imaging with 18F-FDG, 18F-DOPA and 68Ga-DOTA peptides. These PET/CT studies are increasingly employed in clinical practice. Indications, advantages and limitations are presented along with recommendations on study protocols, interpretation of findings and reporting results.