ArticleSurgery today2014
Diagnostic value of ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT for lymph node metastasis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
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- Evaluation and treatment results of trimodality therapy for advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.Esophagus : official journal of the Japan Esophageal Society · 2021Article
- Role of precision imaging in esophageal cancer.Journal of thoracic disease · 2020Review
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- Systematic review and meta-analysis of the accuracy of 18F-FDG PET/CT for detection of regional lymph node metastasis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.Journal of thoracic disease · 2018Article
- Mediastinal node staging by positron emission tomography-computed tomography and selective endoscopic ultrasound with fine needle aspiration for patients with upper gastrointestinal cancer: Results from a regional centre.World journal of gastrointestinal endoscopy · 2018Article
- Distribution of FDG-avid nodes in esophageal cancer: implications for radiotherapy target delineation.Radiation oncology (London, England) · 2016Article
- A study about different findings of PET-CT between neoadjuvant and non-neoadjuvant therapy: SUVmax is not a reliable predictor of lymphatic involvement after neoadjuvant therapy for esophageal cancer.Journal of thoracic disease · 2016Article
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Abstract
purposeThis study investigated the diagnostic accuracy of hybrid positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for lymph node (LN) metastasis of esophageal cancer. We also investigated the correlation between the size of metastatic nests and the detection by PET/CT.
methodsTwo hundred and fifty-eight patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who underwent esophagectomy with two- or three-field radical lymphadenectomy were analyzed retrospectively. We compared the diagnosis of preoperative PET/CT to the postoperative histopathological examination by each anatomical field (n = 1,231) in all 258 patients. The metastatic LNs resected from PET/CT positive fields were classified as belonging to the PET/CT-N-positive group (n = 229) and those from negative fields as belonging to the PET/CT-N-negative group (n = 352). The cross-sectional areas of metastatic nests were measured in each metastatic LN.
resultsOf the 1,231 fields, 275 (22 %) were positive for metastasis, including 581 LNs from 408 regional LN stations. The sensitivity and specificity of PET/CT examined by each anatomical field were 25.8 and 97.8 %, respectively. The median area of metastatic nests was 17.7 mm2 in the PET/CT-N-positive group, and 7.7 mm2 in the PET/CT-N-negative group (p < 0.001).
conclusionsA significant correlation was suggested between the nest size and detection by PET/CT. Because of its low sensitivity, PET/CT alone is insufficient to determine the surgical procedures, especially when considering reduction surgery.
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