Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 71-year-old woman presented to her physician after several months with enlarged cervical lymph nodes. A biopsy ...

A new proof of concept study has shown that an imaging technique more commonly used to assess cancer patients may also be of help in assessing disease and treatment effects in patients with ...

FDG PET imaging measures glucose uptake in the brain. It has long served as a proxy for neuronal health—but is it? In the October 13 Science Translational Medicine, researchers led by Christian Haass ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 36-year-old woman originally presented in January 2007 with a palpable mass. She underwent bilateral mammogram ...

Michael Farwell, MD, associate professor of radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, provides insights into a study on the benefits of using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT ...

An important mechanism responsible for the sudden and unpredictable onset of acute thrombosis is plaque rupture. [1] The risk of rupture depends more on the plaque's composition rather than its size. ...

Background: Cancer immunotherapy has helped transform the standard of care for many malignancies, but not all patients respond to therapy, and the treatment can cause severe adverse events. Typically, ...

Identification of driver gene alterations in Chinese female patients with squamous cell carcinomas of the lung. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does ...

A 56-year-old man is referred to a pulmonologist for evaluation of a left lung upper lobe infiltrate. Approximately 10 months earlier, he was treated for pneumonia of the left lung. However, he ...

Researchers routinely use FDG PET scans, which measure brain glucose consumption, as a marker of neural activity. Now, a new paper challenges the idea that this signal solely represents neuronal ...