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Adult supratentorial gliomas continue to be one of the most challenging diagnostic and therapeuticproblems for the neuro-oncologist.Despite a variety of therapeutic approaches,local control and survivalrates remain disappointingly low,largely due to a relative inability to localize diffusely infiltrating glial tumoncells.FDG PET provides a relatively noninvasive method for studying glucose metabolism in normal andpathologic brain tissues.In order to assess the usefulness of FDG PET in a prospective cohort of patients,agroup of 31 glial tumor patients underwent serial FDG PET scans at specified evaluation time points:initial
Adult supratentorial gliomas continue to be one of the most challenging diagnostic and therapeuticproblems for the neuro-oncologist. Despite a variety of therapeutic approaches, local control and survivalrates remain disappointingly low, largely due to a relative inability to localize diffusely infiltrating glial tumon cells. FDG PET provides a relatively noninvasive method for studying glucose metabolism in normal andpathologic brain tissues. In order to assess the usefulness of FDG PET in a prospective cohort of patients, agroup of 31 glial tumor patients underwent serial FDG PET scans at specified evaluation time points: initial