Prevalence and risk of cancer of incidental uptake in prostate identified by fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography

The objective was to investigate the prevalence of incidental fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake in positron emission tomography/computed tomography.A total of 11,239 male nonprostate disease patients were included retrospectively.The prevalence of incidental prostate FDG uptake was approximately 1.8%. Among 198 incidental lesions, 100 patients had further examinations; 20 lesions were confirmed to be malignant, while 80 lesions were...