Role of gastric distention with additional water in differentiating locally advanced gastric carcinomas from physiological uptake in the stomach on 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose PET - Concepedia

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Role of gastric distention with additional water in differentiating locally advanced gastric carcinomas from physiological uptake in the stomach on 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose PET

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2009

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Kiyohisa Kamimura, Shigeki Nagamachi, Hideyuki Wakamatsu, Seigo Fujita, Ryuichi Nishii, Yoshiro Umemura, Mikio Ogita, Naoto Komada, Toshinori Sakurai, Teruhiko Inoue,

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Abstract

Gastric distention as a result of patients drinking a glass of water is a simple and noninvasive method for improving the diagnostic accuracy of FDG-PET in patients with locally advanced gastric carcinoma.

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