| Literature DB >> 21508735 |
Mylene T Truong1, Chitra Viswanathan, Jeremy J Erasmus.
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Positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomographic scanning, using 18F-2-deoxy-D-glucose, complements conventional imaging evaluation of patients with lung cancer. The strength of PET scanning lies in the detection of nodal and extrathoracic metastases. PET scanning is also currently being studied in the assessment of prognosis and therapeutic response and has the potential to alter management of oncologic patients. This review will discuss the role of PET/computed tomographic scanning in the diagnosis, staging, and evaluation of prognosis and treatment response in patients with lung cancer.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21508735 DOI: 10.1097/RTI.0b013e3182128704
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Thorac Imaging ISSN: 0883-5993 Impact factor: 3.000