Question 267 · LDEK · Radiological diagnosis
Evaluation of cancer advancement, monitoring of treatment with regard to intensity of metabolic rates and extent of neoplastic infiltration, differentiation between surgical or radiotherapy wound and relapse, and finding primary focus in the presence of metastases, is possible with:
- A. Scintigraphy.
- B. Magnetic Resonance Imagining (MRI).
- C. Positron Emission Tomography (PET).
- D. Ultrasonography.
- E. Computed Tomography (CT).
Hint
The key words are metabolic activity and telling scar from viable tumor — which modality images function rather than anatomy?
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