Screening for distant metastases in head and neck cancer patients by chest CT or whole body FDG-PET: A prospective multicenter trial

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 221-229

  Senft, Asaf ^a   de Bree, Remco ^a   Hoekstra, Otto S ^a   Kuik, Dirk J ^a   Golding, Richard P ^a   Oyen, Wim J G ^b   Pruim, Jan ^c   van den Hoogen, Frank J ^b   Roodenburg, Jan L N ^c   Leemans, C René ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CT; Distant metastases; FDG PET; Head and neck cancer; Screening

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY CT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 43049176665     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.03.008     Document Type: Article

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