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Book cover PET-CT and PET-MRI in Oncology

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This chapter discusses FDG normal variant uptake in HIV patients and the role of FDG PET/CT in malignancies in HIV-infected patients, CNS manifestations of HIV, assessing fever of unknown origin in HIV patients, assessing response to highly active antiretroviral therapy, and assessing complications. FDG PET/CT has proven useful in the diagnosis, staging, and detection of metastasis and post treatment monitoring of several malignancies in HIV-infected patients. It also has the ability to make the important distinction between malignancy and infection in the evaluation of CNS lesions, leading to the initiation of the appropriate treatment and precluding the need for invasive biopsy. However, immunosuppression predisposes patients to a number of opportunistic infections, and therefore special care must be taken interpreting FDG PET/CT in HIV patients

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    J. M. Davison, Devaki S. Surasi & T. Jackson

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  3. Russell H Morgan Departments of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Institutions, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 601 N. Caroline Street/ JHOC 3235, Baltimore , MD, 21287, USA

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Subramaniam, R.M., Davison, J.M., Surasi, D.S., Jackson, T., Cooley, T. (2011). Patients with HIV. In: Peller, P., Subramaniam, R., Guermazi, A. (eds) PET-CT and PET-MRI in Oncology. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2011_459

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