Description of the Appearance of Brown Fat in Scanner (BAT)

Regional University Hospital Center (CHRU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Description of Brown Fat

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02891889

BAT

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to investigate aspects of brown fat in scanner with injection via the PET-CT study.

Full description

Brown fat is metabolically active adipose tissue. It can be responsible in PET-CT of a fixation of 18-FDG and a look of pseudo-infiltration of fat. These aspects can be sources of false positives. The objective here is to gain a better knowledge of the scanner in areas of brown fat.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Consecutive patients since June 2014, who underwent a thoraco-abdominopelvic PET-CT examination with 18F-FDG in the University Hospital of Brest, in a clinical setting which warranted.
• Major Patients
• No opposition formalized

Exclusion criteria

• Refusal of participation