%0 Journal Article %A Vanessa López %A Sonia Herrero %A Amaia Iridoy %A Jose Cascante %A Angel Panizo %A Maria Garcia %A Javier Hueto %T The utility of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomographyin the evaluation of carcinoid tumors presenting as pulmonary nodules. Experience in our hospital %D 2014 %J European Respiratory Journal %P P2769 %V 44 %N Suppl 58 %X Introduction and Objective:fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) is sensitive for detection of neoplastic solitary pulmonary nodules but may have decreased sensitivity for the detection of carcinoid tumors.Our purpose was to analyze PET to detect pulmonary carcinoid tumors.Methods:We performed a retrospective review of our hospital results regarding PET in the setting of thoracic carcinoid neoplasms.Identified 19 patients with a pathologic diagnosis of bronchial carcinoid who had an previous PET (2006 to 2013).The following data were abstracted from the clinical records:clinical,localization,size,pathology,PET imagingResults:42% were male,mean age 54,7 years ±12,526% smoker,57,8% ex smoker,15,7% no smoker.14 (74%)typical,5(26%) atypical carcinoid tumorThe mean greatest pathologic dimension was 24 mm±8,5;results were significantly different between typical and atypical 21mm±5,2 and 35±7,5, p =0,0034)We found that there was a consistent location of tumors.47%of this tumors are endobronchial in origin18 positive PET cases(mean SVmax 2,82 ± 2,37)results were not significantly different between typical and atypical tumor(SVmax 2,34 ±1,33 and SVmax 4,19±4,04,p =0.51)34% was discrepancy PET imaging between lymph nodes and found to correlate with surgical staging6(31%) of these cases false-positive and false-negative in 1(5%)Conclusions:In our experience PET imaging in detection of carcinoid tumors is somewhat reducedWe didnt find PET imaging useful for the evaluation of typical and atypical thoracic carcinoid tumorsIn our sample the PET study are a contributies little to the decision making in these tumors. %U