Comorbidity Assessment in Patients With Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Can Imaging Techniques (Fludeoxyglucose Positron-Emission Tomographic Computed Tomography and Contrast-Enhanced Computed tomography) Provide Additional Information?

Relevant and otherwise covert comorbidities can be found by the performance of imaging staging examinations. This enables clinicians to better assess the peri-therapeutic risk and prognosis of patients with OSCC. Therefore, a detailed evaluation of incidental findings on imaging studies is warranted and recommended.