Staging of non-small-cell lung cancer with integrated positron-emission tomography and computed tomography

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 2500-2507

  Lardinois, Didier ^a   Weder, Walter ^a   Hany, Thomas F ^a   Kamel, Ehab M ^a   Korom, Stephan ^a   Seifert, Burkhardt ^b   Von Schulthess, Gustav K ^a   Steinert, Hans C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037792992     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa022136     Document Type: Article

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