Staging of non-small cell lung cancer using integrated PET/CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1203-1211

  Kligerman, Seth ^a   Digumarthy, Subba ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Non small cell lung cancer; PET CT

Indexed keywords

CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; METASTASIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70449514720     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3193     Document Type: Review

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