Staging of esophageal cancer with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography. - Concepedia

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Staging of esophageal cancer with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography.

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1997

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Fidelma Flanagan, Farrokh Dehdashti, Barry A. Siegel, D D Trask, Sudhir Sundaresan, G. A. Patterson, Jonathan D. Cooper

American Journal of Roentgenology

Abstract

FDG PET is more sensitive than CT for revealing regional and distant metastases in patients with esophageal carcinoma. The use of PET in the staging of esophageal cancer may prove to be cost-effective by decreasing the number of unnecessary surgeries in patients with unresectable tumors.