Clinical Staging of Patients with Early Esophageal Adenocarcinoma: Does FDG-PET/CT Have a Role? [1]
The authors queried whether PET has utility in clinically staging Tis or T1 esophageal cancers; this was a single institution retrospective study involving 79 pts. The incidence of FDG uptake increased with increasing T status, as did the SUV. Nodal staging was false positive in 3 pts and false negative all 13 pts with nodal involvement. Metastatic staging was false positive in 5 pts. PET is not recommended for pts with Tis or T1 disease on EUS.