Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17624533›Full record

SynthesisWorld journal of urology2007

Positron emission tomography (PET) in the urooncological evaluation of the small pelvis.

S Machtens, J Serth, A Meyer, C Kleinhorst, K-J Ommer, U Herbst, M Kieruij, A R Boerner

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Synthesis in World journal of urology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Review
  3. Preclinical lymphatic imaging.Molecular imaging and biology · 2011
    Review
  4. In vivo imaging of intraprostatic-specific gene transcription by PET.Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine · 2011
    Article
  5. Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

S MachtensDepartment of Urology and Paediatric Urology, Marienkrankenhaus Bergisch Gladbach gGmbH, Dr. Robert-Koch-Str. 18, 51465 Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. Stefan.machtens@mkh-bgl.de
J Serth
A Meyer
C Kleinhorst
K-J Ommer
U Herbst
M Kieruij
A R Boerner
Augusta Krankenhaus · DEMedizinische Hochschule Hannover · DEKrankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder Trier · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Positron emission tomography (PET) with the use of ((18)F)2-fluoro-D: -2-desoxyglucose (FDG) has been investigated to be a highly sensitive and specific imaging modality in the diagnostic of primary and recurrent tumors and in the control of therapies in numerous non-urologic cancers. The aim of this review is to validate the significance of PET as a diagnostic tool in malignant urological tumors of the small pelvis. A systematic review of the current literature concerning the role of PET for malignant prostate, testicular and bladder tumors was carried out. The data indicate no additional role for PET in comparison with conventional imaging in tumor detection and local staging for prostate, bladder or testicular cancer. Tumor recurrence in prostate cancer seems to be more effectively identified with acetate and choline than with FDG, but this effect is more pronounced with higher PSA values. The value of PET in the identification of metastatic disease in either tumor entity can not be finally outlined as the clinical data are partly missing, controversial or in the process of evaluation. FDG-PET can be regarded as accepted imaging modality in the restaging of seminomatous germ cell tumors after chemotherapy.

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Diagnosis, DifferentialHumansMaleNeoplasm StagingPelvisProstatic NeoplasmsReproducibility of ResultsTesticular NeoplasmsTomography, Emission-Computed, Single-PhotonUrinary Bladder Neoplasms

Identifiers

PMID17624533
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