The DOI matches its Crossref record.
Focal pulmonary abnormalities: evaluation with F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET scanning.
Abstract
The authors assessed the role of positron emission tomography (PET) with fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) in differentiation of benign from malignant focal pulmonary abnormalities seen on chest radiographs. Fifty-one patients underwent FDG PET scanning. Focal abnormalities at radiography included solitary pulmonary nodules (n = 38), pulmonary masses (n = 5), and poorly marginated infiltrates or opacities (n = 8). Proof of diagnosis was obtained by means of transbronchial biopsy (n = 21), open lung biopsy (n = 14), percutaneous needle biopsy (n = 14), or cytologic evaluation of sputum (n = 1). A nodule in one patient had been radiographically stable for at least 8 years. Quantitative analysis was performed by calculation of a standardized uptake ratio (SUR). Thirty-three malignant lesions had a mean SUR (+/- 1 standard deviation) of 6.5 +/- 2.9. Eighteen benign lesions had a mean SUR of 1.7 +/- 1.2. For a benign lesion with SUR of 2.5 or less, specificity of FDG PET was 100%, while sensitivity was 89%. These results suggest that FDG PET is accurate in differentiation of benign from malignant focal pulmonary abnormalities.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
(2001) · PubMed · Cited by 943
Zhuang, H., & Alavi, A. (2002) · Seminars in Nuclear Medicine · doi:10.1053/snuc.2002.29278 · Cited by 524
Evaluation of Patients With Pulmonary Nodules: When Is It Lung Cancer?
Gould, M. K., Fletcher, J., Iannettoni, M. D., Lynch, W. R., Midthun, D. E., Naidich, D. P., & Ost, D. E. (2007) · Chest · doi:10.1378/chest.07-1353 · Cited by 503
Antoch, G., Saoudi, N., Kuehl, H., Dahmen, G., Mueller, S. P., Beyer, T., Bockisch, A., Debatin, J. F., & Freudenberg, L. S. (2004) · Journal of Clinical Oncology · doi:10.1200/jco.2004.08.120 · Cited by 435
Staging Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer with Whole-Body PET
Marom, E. M., McAdams, H. P., Erasmus, J. J., Goodman, P. C., Culhane, D. K., Coleman, R. E., Herndon, J. E., & Patz, E. F. (1999) · Radiology · doi:10.1148/radiology.212.3.r99se21803 · Cited by 384
Self-citation
Metadata
- Authors
- Patz, E. F., Lowe, V. J., Hoffman, J. M., Paine, S. S., Burrowes, P., Coleman, R. E., & Goodman, P. C.
- Venue
- Radiology
- Published
- 1993-08
- Volume
- 188
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 487-490
- ISSN
- 0033-8419 (ISSN-L)
- 1527-1315
- OpenAlex
- W1988873933
- Cited by
- 511
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 16.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Focal pulmonary abnormalities: evaluation with F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET scanning. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1148/radiology.188.2.8327702
- The paper
- Patz, E. F., Lowe, V. J., Hoffman, J. M., Paine, S. S., Burrowes, P., Coleman, R. E., & Goodman, P. C. (1993). Focal pulmonary abnormalities: evaluation with F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET scanning. Radiology. https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.188.2.8327702
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
