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ArticleMolecular imaging and radionuclide therapy2018

Anastas Krassenov Demirev, Irena Dimitrova Kostadinova, Iliya Rumenov Gabrovski

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Article in Molecular imaging and radionuclide therapy, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Potential Role of Molecular Imaging withIndian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anastas Krassenov DemirevAcıbadem City Clinic Cancer Center, Clinic of Nuclear Medicine, Sofia, BulgariaORCID 0000-0001-5591-924X
Irena Dimitrova KostadinovaAcıbadem City Clinic Cancer Center, Clinic of Nuclear Medicine, Sofia, Bulgaria
Iliya Rumenov GabrovskiThe Queen Giovanna Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria
Acibadem City Clinic · BGQueen Giovanna Hospital · BG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objectives: Radiation pneumonitis (RP) can be an adverse complication of radiotherapy (RT) and can limit the application of the already planned radiation dose. It is often associated with RT of lung carcinoma and is occasionally caused by radiation therapy of breast carcinoma and lymphomas located in the mediastinum. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) emerges lately as a prospective modality for early diagnostics of RP. The aim of this study was to summarize the initial data from diagnostic application of PET/CT in patients suspicious of RP and to derive criteria, which can help differentiate RP from early recurrence of the disease and/or residual tumor. Methods: The current study included 23 patients who had metabolic (PET) and anatomical (CT) changes consistent with RP. We additionally defined metabolic activity (SUV Results: All patients had increased metabolic activity in the lung parenchyma involved in the irradiated area with a mean SUV Conclusion: Metabolic changes in patients suspicious of RP involved diffusely increased metabolic activity coinciding with the anatomical changes in the irradiated area. Three out of 23 patients had a proven recurrence of the primary neoplastic process in the irradiated area. The metabolic changes in those patients involved an increase in metabolic activity at follow-up or lack of tendency towards normalization after chemotherapy, which implied the existence of viable tumor cells. Our initial experience in the diagnostic application of

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18F-FDG PET/CThybrid imagingradiation pneumonitisradiotherapy

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