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ReviewPET clinics2019

Management of Primary Osseous Spinal Tumors with PET.

Ali Batouli, Ali Gholamrezanezhad, David Petrov, Scott Rudkin, George Matcuk, Hossein Jadvar

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Review in PET clinics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review Article: Diagnostic Paradigm Shift in Spine Surgery.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  3. [An application of posterior cervical and transoral approaches to treating primary malignant osseous tumors in craniovertebral junction].Zhongguo xiu fu chong jian wai ke za zhi = Zhongguo xiufu chongjian waike zazhi = Chinese journal of reparative and reconstructive surgery · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ali BatouliDepartment of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, Oregon Health and Science University, 8833 Southwest 30th Avenue, Portland, OR 97219, USA. Electronic address: dibatouli@gmail.com.
Ali GholamrezanezhadDepartment of Radiology, Division of Musculoskeletal Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC 102, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
David PetrovDepartment of Radiology, Allegheny Health Network, 320 East North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15214, USA.
Scott RudkinDepartment of Radiology, Allegheny Health Network, 320 East North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15214, USA.
George MatcukDepartment of Radiology, Division of Musculoskeletal Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC 102, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
Hossein JadvarDepartment of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC 102, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA; Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC 102, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
University of Southern California · USAllegheny Health Network · USOregon Health & Science University · US

Funding

USC/NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER (CORE) SUPPORTP30CA014089 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Fumito Ito · 1985 to 2026
$181.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014089
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Knowledge of the PET imaging findings of osseous spinal neoplasms is essential, because they are common incidental findings on PET scans done for staging of unrelated primary malignancies. Additionally, PET can help differentiate lesions that are not clearly defined by anatomic modalities alone. PET can also be used for follow-up of aggressive tumors to assess response to treatment, often proving superior to CT or MR imaging alone for this purpose. This review discusses the role of PET/CT and PET/MR imaging in the diagnosis and management of primary benign and malignant osseous tumors of the spine.

Indexed as

Bone and BonesHumansPositron-Emission TomographySpinal NeoplasmsSpineMolecular imagingOsseous tumorsPositron emission tomography (PET)SpineSpine tumorStandardized uptake value (SUV)

Identifiers

PMID30420225
PMCPMC7466826
OpenAlexW2898257911

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