Usefulness of [18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose positron emission tomography for predicting the World Health Organization malignancy grade of thymic epithelial tumors - Concepedia

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Usefulness of [18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose positron emission tomography for predicting the World Health Organization malignancy grade of thymic epithelial tumors

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2010

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Hitoshi Igai, Natsumi Matsuura, Shintaro Tarumi, Sung Soo Chang, Noriyuki Misaki, Tetsuhiko Go, Shinya Ishikawa, Hiroyasu Yokomise

European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Abstract

A significant relationship was observed between SUVmax and morphological classification by the WHO system for this cohort of thymic epithelial tumors. Pre-treatment SUVmax may be useful for differentiating thymoma from thymic carcinoma.

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