Imaging for oncologic staging and follow-up: Review of current methods and novel approaches

Acta Biomedica de l'Ateneo Parmense

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 85-91

  Cademartiri, Filippo ^a,b   Luccichenti, Giacomo ^c   Maffei, Erica ^a   Fusaro, Michele ^a   Palumbo, Alessandro ^a,b   Soliani, Paolo ^a   Sianesi, Mario ^a   Zompatori, Maurizio ^a   Crisi, Girolamo ^a   Krestin, Gabriel P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Criteria; Follow up; Guidelines; Oncology; Radiologic evaluation; Staging; Tumor response

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FOLLOW UP; ONCOLOGY; OPERATOR; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; TUMOR VOLUME; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 55249098099     PISSN: 03924203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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