Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET in the preoperative staging of colorectal cancer
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- 作者：Jose Manuel Llamas-Elvira ; Antonio Rodr¨ªguez-Fern¨¢ndez ; Javier Guti¨¦rrez-S¨¢inz ; Manuel Gomez-Rio ; Mar¨ªa Bellon-Guardia ; Carlos Ramos-Font ; Angel Custodio Rebollo-Aguirre ; Dolores Cabello-Garc¨ªa and Antonio Ferr¨®n-Orihuela
- 关键词：18F ; FDG ; Position emission tomography ; Colorectal cancer ; Staging ; Preoperative
- 刊名：European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
- 出版年：2007
- 出版时间：June, 2007
- 年：2007
- 卷：34
- 期：6
- 页码：859-867
- 全文大小：190 KB
文摘
Introduction In patients with colorectal cancer (CC), preoperative evaluation and staging should focus on techniques that might alter the preoperative or intraoperative surgical plan. Conventional imaging methods (CT, MRI) have low accuracy for identifying the depth of tumour infiltration and have limited ability to detect regional lymph node involvement. The aim of this study was to evaluate the utility of FDG-PET in the initial staging of patients with CC in comparison with conventional staging methods and to determine its impact on therapeutic management.