Value of PET-CT in avoiding multimodality therapy in operable cervical cancer

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1041-1045

  Goyal, Bhupesh K ^a   Singh, Harkirat ^a   Kapur, Krishna ^b   Duggal, Bhupinder S ^a   Jacob, Mattakarottu J ^a  

^a ARMY HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND REFERRAL   (India)

^b Associated with Armed Forces Medical College   (India)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Chemoradiation; PET CT; Radical hysterectomy

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; SCINTISCANNING; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

EID: 77956828535     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/IGC.0b013e3181dcadeb     Document Type: Article

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