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Ann Thorac Surg 2008;85:1457. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.07.028
© 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
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Images in Cardiothoracic Surgery

Mediastinal Mapping With Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography

Okan Falay, MDa, Cemal Asim Kutlu, MD, FETCSb,*

a Medica Imaging Centre, Sureyyapasa, Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Teaching and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
b Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sureyyapasa, Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Teaching and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

* Address correspondence to Dr Kutlu, Thoracic Surgery, Medkon, Hakki Yeten Cad., 12/12, Sisli, Istanbul, 34394, Turkey (Email: cakutlu{at}tnn.net).

Mediastinal lymph nodes were detected on a fluorine-18 (F-18) fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scan (Siemens LSO HI-REZ Biograph 6; Siemens Medical Systems, Munich, Germany) in a 62-year-old man who presented with a large mass in the right upper lobe seen on coronal multiplanar reformatted image (Fig 1A).


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Multiplanar reformation of images were constituted from PET/CT reoriented axial slices using the sagittal view as the reference (Fig 1B), with an image thickness of 1 cm and a distance between the images of 1 cm (Fig 2), and 1 slice with 2-cm thickness of coronal image on Figure 1 in three-dimensional syngo postprocessing software (Siemens Medical Systems). The axial images are created head-to-feet because of the view of invasive staging procedures.


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