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ArticleJournal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine2018

Prognostic value of SUR in patients with trimodality treatment of locally advanced esophageal carcinoma.

Rebecca Bütof, Frank Hofheinz, Klaus Zöphel, Julia Schmollack, Christina Jentsch, Sebastian Zschaeck, Jörg Kotzerke, Jörg van den Hoff, Michael Baumann

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Article in Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Rebecca BütofDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany.
Frank HofheinzHelmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, PET Center, Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Germany.
Klaus ZöphelDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität, Germany.
Julia SchmollackDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität, Germany.
Christina JentschDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Germany.
Sebastian ZschaeckDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Germany.
Jörg KotzerkeDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität, Germany.
Jörg van den HoffHelmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, PET Center, Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Germany.
Michael BaumannDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Germany.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prognosis of patients with esophageal carcinoma remains dismal despite ongoing efforts to improve treatment options. For locally advanced tumors, several randomized trials have shown the benefit of neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by surgery compared to surgery alone. The aim of this exploratory study was to evaluate the prognostic value of different baseline positron emission tomography (PET) parameters and their potentially additional prognostic impact at the end of neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy. Furthermore, the standard uptake ratio (SUR) as a new parameter for quantification of tumor metabolism was compared to the conventional PET parameters metabolic active volume (MTV), total lesion glycolysis (TLG), and standardized uptake value (SUV) taking into account known basic parameters.

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esophageal cancerFDG-PETMTVOncology: GIPET/CTSURSUV

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PMID30166358
PMCPMC8833854

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