Cost-effectiveness analysis of amino acid PET-guided surgery for supratentorial high-grade gliomas

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 552-558

  Heinzel, Alexander ^a   Stock, Stephanie ^b   Langen, Karl Josef ^c   Müller, Dirk ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino acid PET; Cost effectiveness analysis; High grade gliomas; PET guided surgery; Therapy planning

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; METHIONINE C 11;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION TREE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLIOBLASTOMA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AMINO ACIDS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASM GRADING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84859376836     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.111.097352     Document Type: Article

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