Modern Hybrid Imaging in Patients With OSCC (PETOSCC)

Wuerzburg University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neoplasm

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04280159

PETOSCC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Prospective diagnostic study to determine the diagnostic accuracy of preoperative 18F--fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in detecting local tumor extent, cervical lymph node metastases and distant metastases/secondary primary tumor.

Enrollment: 265 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Histopathological proven head and neck carcinoma
• Written inform consent
• 18 years of age

Exclusion criteria

• Cancer of unknown primary
• En-bloc resection of lymph node levels
• Uncertainties regarding the removed lymph node levels