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ArticleIndian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India

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Mahmoud Rezk, Ibrahim Nasr, Ismail Ali, Heba Abdelhamed

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Article in Indian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mahmoud RezkDepartment of Radiology, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Ibrahim NasrDepartment of Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt.
Ismail AliDepartment of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt.
Heba AbdelhamedDepartment of Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimThis study aims to assess the diagnostic performance of MATERIALS AND

methodsTwenty-three female patients with suspected breast cancer recurrence by clinical, laboratory, or conventional imaging underwent both

resultsPET/CT demonstrated higher specificity and sensitivity indices than MR/DWIBS in the detection of the nodal and distant lesions, while the latter displayed higher sensitivity in the detection of local breast lesions. The overall sensitivity, specificity, NPV, PPV, and accuracy of PET/CT were 84.8%, 86.3%, 90.4%, 78.7%, and 85.4% versus 82.1%, 78.0%, 85.2%, 74.0%, and 80.5% for MR/DWIBS. A high degree of agreement existed between PET/CT and MR-DWIBS.

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18Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computerized tomographyxsbreast cancerwhole body magnetic resonance imaging-diffusion weighted imaging with background body signal suppression

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PMID30713370
PMCPMC6352640

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