Detection of metastatic disease in cardiophrenic lymph nodes: FDG PET/CT versus contrast enhanced CT and implications for staging and treatment of disease

Detection of metastatic disease in cardiophrenic lymph nodes: FDG PET/CT versus contrast enhanced CT and implications for staging and treatment of disease

Objective: To determine whether FDG PET/CT was more sensitive than CT in detecting metastatic disease in the cardiophrenic space and whether the presence of disease in this location would change the staging and clinical management. Methods: 1200 PET/CT scans were retrospectively reviewed over 20 mo...

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Main Authors: Shannon eFarmakis, Kaveh eVejdani, Razi eMuzaffar, Nadeem eParkar, Medhat M Osman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
Subjects:
PET/CT
lymph node metastasis
-FDG
cardiophrenic
TNM staging
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fonc.2013.00260/full

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