Patients with melanoma present a high risk of developing extracutaneous metastases. Positron emission tomography--computed tomography (PET-CT) is one of the preferred examinations for the staging of oncological patients. It is not the method of choice to detect brain metastases, but this technique has shown significant improvement and allows the detection of some of them. However, it is unclear how it performs compared with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the current gold standard for diagnosing brain metastases.
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