Background Patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) have a better survival than with HPV-negative oropharyngeal SCC. An 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-CT (18F-FDG-PET-CT) may also provide prognostic information. We evaluated glycolytic characteristics in HPV-negative and HPV-positive oropharyngeal SCC. Methods Forty-four patients underwent pretreatment 18F-FDG-PET-CT. Standardized uptake values (SUVs) and metabolic active tumor volumes (MATVs) were determined for primary tumors. HPV status was determined with p16 immunostaining, followed by high-risk HPV DNA detection on the positive cases. Results Twenty-seven patients were HPV-positive (61.4%). Median MATV was 2.8 mL (range = 1.6-5.1 mL) for HPV-positive and 6.0 mL (range = 4.4-18.7 mL) for HPV-negative tumors (p
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Schouten, C. S., Hakim, S., Boellaard, R., Bloemena, E., Doornaert, P. A., Witte, B. I., … De Bree, R. (2016). Interaction of quantitative 18F-FDG-PET-CT imaging parameters and human papillomavirus status in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma. In Head and Neck (Vol. 38, pp. 529–535). John Wiley and Sons Inc. https://doi.org/10.1002/hed.23920
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