Recommendations in Clinical 18F-Fluoro-2-Deoxy-D-Glucose PET/CT Reports: Referring Physicians' Compliance and Diagnostic Yield

In a nonprofit academic medical center, recommendations for additional radiological and nonradiological examinations in clinical FDG-PET/CT reports are relatively low. Recommendations are mostly followed and lead to a malignant diagnosis in a substantial number of cases. Compliance of the referring physician is influenced by the strength of the recommendation.