Histopathologic validation of lymph node staging with FDG-PET scan in cancer of the esophagus and gastroesophageal junction: A prospective study based on primary surgery with extensive lymphadenectomy

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 232, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 743-752

  Lerut, Toni ^a   Flamen, Patrick ^a   Ectors, Nadine ^a   Van Cutsem, Erik ^a   Peeters, Marc ^a   Hiele, Martin ^a   De Wever, Walter ^a   Coosemans, Willy ^a   Decker, Georges ^a   De Leyn, Paul ^a   Deneffe, Georges ^a   Van Raemdonck, Dirk ^a   Mortelmans, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARD; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0033651729     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200012000-00003     Document Type: Article

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