Impact of 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT on salvage radiotherapy planning in patients with prostate cancer and persisting PSA values or biochemical relapse after prostatectomy

EJNMMI Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Bluemel, Christina ^a   Linke, Fraenze ^b   Herrmann, Ken ^c,d   Simunovic, Iva ^a   Eiber, Matthias ^c   Kestler, Christian ^a   Buck, Andreas K ^a   Schirbel, Andreas ^a   Bley, Thorsten A ^a   Wester, Hans Juergen ^e   Vergho, Daniel ^a   Becker, Axel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Klinikum Ansbach   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

PET CT; Prostate cancer; PSMA; Recurrence; Salvage radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM 68;

ADULT; ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BONE METASTASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84993946956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2191219X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13550-016-0233-4     Document Type: Article

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