Application of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the management of head and neck cancers

Figure 5 A patient with a synchronous laryngeal and lung squamous cell carcinomas. A 70-year-old male with diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma of the glottic larynx T3N0M0 (A and B; arrow). He underwent a positron emission tomography/computed tomography scan which revealed additional lesions in the right lung which were biopsied endobronchial and shown to be a second primary lung cancer with mediastinal lymphadenopathy (C and D; arrows).