A suspected [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-negative metastatic lymph node successfully diagnosed by laparoscopic staging in esophageal cancer: Report of two cases

Surgery Today

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 888-891

  Takeno, Atsushi ^a   Takiguchi, Shuji ^a   Yamasaki, Makoto ^a   Miyata, Hiroshi ^a   Kawabata, Ryohei ^a   Nushijima, Yoichiro ^a   Makino, Tomoki ^a   Fujiwara, Yoshiyuki ^a   Nakajima, Kiyokazu ^a   Nishida, Toshiro ^a   Mori, Masaki ^a   Doki, Yuichiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Laparoscopic surgery; Lymph node sampling; Staging

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FLUOROURACIL; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CARDIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING AORTA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY TUMOR; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; TUMOR BIOPSY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349558422     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-009-3952-6     Document Type: Article

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