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. 2016 Nov 29;122(1):43–50. doi: 10.1080/03009734.2016.1248803

Table 6.

Number of lesions detected with both 5-HTP PET/CT and MRI (including diffusion-weighted and contrast-enhanced images) or with only one of the modalities in different types of NET.

Total number
Diagnosis MRI and PET/CT PET/CT only MRI only MRI PET/CT
Si-NET 17 0 2 19 17
P-NET 5 2 12 17 7
LCCa 12 6 7 19 18
Thymic NET >10 0 0 >10 >10
Ovarian NET 0 0 0 0 0
Unknown origin 0 0 1 1 0
a

One LCC patient with >10 lesions in lymph nodes in mediastinum/upper thorax which were visible with both MRI and PET/CT is excluded from the table for clarity.

LCC: lung carcinoid; P-NET: pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor; Si-NET: small intestine neuroendocrine tumor.