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The incremental effect of positron emission tomography on diagnostic accuracy in the initial staging of esophageal carcinoma

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2004

Year

Hiroyuki Kato, Tatsuya Miyazaki, Masanobu Nakajima, Junko Takita, Hitoshi Kimura, Ahmad Faried, Makoto Sohda, Yasuyuki Fukai, Norihiro Masuda, Minoru Fukuchi,
Cancer

Abstract

FDG-PET provided incremental value over CT in the initial staging of esophageal carcinoma. At present, combined PET-CT may be the most effective method available for the preoperative staging of esophageal tumors.

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