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A Prospective Comparison of 18F-FDG PET/CT and CT as Diagnostic Tools to Identify the Primary Tumor Site in Patients with Extracervical Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Site

Anne Kirstine Hundahl Møller, Annika Loft, Anne Kiil Berthelsen, Karen Damgaard Pedersen, Jesper Graff, Charlotte Birk Christensen, Junia C. Costa, Lene Theil Skovgaard, Katharina Perell, Bodil Laub Petersen,

The Oncologist · 2012 · 53 citations · 17 references

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Abstract

In the general CUP population with multiple extracervical metastases (18)F-FDG PET/CT does not represent a clear diagnostic advantage over CT alone regarding the ability to detect the primary tumor site.

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