Clinical role of 18F-FDG PET-CT in suspected and potentially operable cholangiocarcinoma: A prospective study compared with conventional imaging

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1145-1151

  Kim, Ji Y ^a   Kim, Myung Hwan ^a,b   Lee, Tae Y ^a   Hwang, Chang Y ^a   Kim, Jae S ^a   Yun, Sung Cheol ^a   Lee, Sang S ^a   Seo, Dong W ^a   Lee, Sung K ^a  

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

^b Asan Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT PLANNING; BILE DUCT TUMOR; BIOPSY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEPATIC DUCT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; AGED; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, EXTRAHEPATIC; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; BIOPSY; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43549085957     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2007.01710.x     Document Type: Article

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