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Monitoring liver tumor therapy with [18F]FDG positron emission tomography.

Y. Nagata, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Masahiro Hiraoka, Manabu Abe, M Takahashi, Keizo Akuta, Yukio Nishimura, Sooyeon Jo, S. Masunaga, S. Kubo

PubMed · 1990 · 43 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Positron emission tomography (PET) with [18F]-2-flurodeoxy-glucose (FDG) can be utilized as a functional imaging modality for monitoring liver tumor therapy. We report three cases in which PET-FDG was more useful for this purpose than other imaging methods and tumor markers.