Combined 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography and computed tomography as a primary screening method for detecting second primary cancers and distant metastases in patients with head and neck cancer

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1698-1703

  Kim, S Y ^a   Roh, J L ^a   Yeo, N K ^a   Kim, J S ^a   Lee, J H ^a   Choi, S H ^a   Nam, S Y ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Distant metastasis; FDG PET CT; Head and neck cancers; Second primary cancers

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND CANCER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34848891490     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdm270     Document Type: Article

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