How useful is integrated PET and CT for the management of pancreatic cancer? Commentary

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 74-75

  Hamer, Okka W ^a   Feuerbach, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Pancreatic cancer; PET

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPY; METASTASIS; PANCREAS CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT SURVEY; STANDARD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645319760     PISSN: 17434378     EISSN: 17434386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpgasthep0407     Document Type: Short Survey

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