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All patients underwent MDCT and assessment of the serum ACE level. Follow-up FDG PET\/CT examination was done 19.84 \u00b1 8.98 months after the baseline. HNS was present in 38 out of 169 patients. FDG uptake was present in: cervical lymph nodes (38\/38), submandibular glands (2\/38), cerebrum (2\/38), and bone (1\/38). The majority of patients had more than two locations of disease. After FDG PET\/CT examination, therapy was changed in most patients. Fourteen patients returned to follow-up FDG PET\/CT examination in order to assess the therapy response. PET\/CT revealed active disease in 12 patients and complete remission in two patients. Follow-up ACE levels had no correlation with follow-up SUVmax level (\u03c1 = \u22120.18, p = 0.77). FDG PET\/CT can be useful in the detection of HNS and in the evaluation of the therapy response. 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