Improved detection of individual nodal involvement in squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus by FDG PET

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 808-815

  Choi, Joon Young ^a   Lee, Kyung Han ^a   Shim, Young Mog ^a   Lee, Kyung Soo ^a   Kim, Jae Jun ^a   Kim, Sang Eun ^a   Kim, Byung Tae ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; FDG; PET; Staging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0343527906     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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