ArticleSurgery today2012
Role of the standardized uptake value of 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography in detecting the primary tumor and lymph node metastasis in colorectal cancers.
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- Initial Staging of Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer and Regional Lymph Nodes: Comparison of Diffusion-Weighted MRI With 18F-FDG-PET/CT.Clinical nuclear medicine · 2016Article
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- Can Initial (18)F-FDG PET-CT Imaging Give Information on Metastasis in Patients with Primary Renal Cell Carcinoma?Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2014Article
- Recent chemotherapy reduces the maximum-standardized uptake value of 18F-fluoro-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography in colorectal cancer.Gut and liver · 2014Article
- Routine use of positron-emission tomography/computed tomography for staging of primary colorectal cancer: does it affect clinical management?World journal of surgical oncology · 2013Article
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Abstract
purposeTo assess the role of positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) and multidetector-row CT (MD-CT) in detecting the primary lesion and lymph node metastasis in patients with colorectal cancers.
methodsA collective total of 80 lesions resected from 77 patients were examined pathologically. We analyzed the significance of the standardized uptake value (SUV) and its relationship with the clinicopathologic findings of primary lesions and lymph node metastasis. The detectability of primary lesions and lymph node metastases on PET-CT images was compared with that on MD-CT images.
resultsThe detectability of primary lesions was better on PET-CT images than on MD-CT images (p = 0.0023). We observed no significant differences in the SUV with respect to staging, tumor grade, lymphatic or vessel invasion, and macroscopic type; however, primary tumor size analysis revealed that tumors larger than 3 cm had a higher SUV than those smaller than 3 cm. The sensitivity of PET-CT for detecting lymph node metastasis was lower than that of MD-CT, but the specificity of PET-CT was higher than that of MD-CT.
conclusionsThe SUV of primary cancers tends to increase in proportion to tumor size. Although the value of PET-CT in detecting lymph node metastasis is limited, PET -positive lymph nodes can be considered metastatic.
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