Screening for distant metastases in patients with head and neck cancer: Is there a role for 18FDG-PET?

Oral Oncology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 275-280

  Brouwer, Jolijn ^a   Senft, Asaf ^a   De Bree, Remco ^a,b   Comans, Emile F I ^a   Golding, Richard P ^a   Castelijns, Jonas A ^a   Hoekstra, Otto S ^a   Leemans, C René ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

18FDG PET; Chest CT; Distant metastases; Head and neck cancer; Screening; Squamous cell carcinoma; Synchronous primary tumours

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ABDOMINAL CANCER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 32644462965     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2005.07.009     Document Type: Article

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