Assessment of tumor recurrence in patients with colorectal cancer and elevated carcinoembryonic antigen level: FDG PET/CT versus contrast-enhanced 64-MDCT of the chest and abdomen

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 766-771

  Metser, Ur ^a   You, John ^b   McSweeney, Sean ^a   Freeman, Marc ^a   Hendler, Aaron ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carcinoembryonic antigen; Colorectal cancer; MDCT; PET CT; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PELVIS; PERITONEUM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UTERINE CERVIX;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77749277444     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3205     Document Type: Article

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