Nuclear medicine communications
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To assess the added benefit of scanning lower limbs in addition to the usual whole-body positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scan in patients with no known or suspected primary or metastatic melanoma involving the lower limbs. ⋯ Lower limbs additional PET/CT acquisition seems to offer poor additional benefit with none unexpected lesion detected and routine skull base to upper thigh images might be sufficient for this subset of patients.