Bronchioalveolar carcinoma: Role of Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in detection of its recurrence and verifying its subtypes

In patients with known BAC, PET/CT proved high accuracy in detection of recurrence lesion sites and higher staging accuracy. [18F]FDG PET/CT scan was able to differentiate between recurrent adenocarcinoma containing BAC and recurrent pure BAC type.