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ArticleCureus2018

Fluorodeoxyglucose versus Choline Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Response Evaluation in Two Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Patients Treated with Talc Pleurodesis and Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy.

Kazuhiro Kitajima, Toru Nakamichi, Seiki Hasegawa, Kozo Kuribayashi, Koichiro Yamakado

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Article in Cureus, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kazuhiro KitajimaRadiology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, JPN.
Toru NakamichiThoracic Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, JPN.
Seiki HasegawaThoracic Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, JPN.
Kozo KuribayashiInternal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, JPN.
Koichiro YamakadoRadiology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, JPN.
Hyogo Medical University · JPKobe College · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Talc pleurodesis has been reported to increase fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake in the high attenuation areas of pleural thickening, making it difficult to distinguish between benign granulomatous inflammatory processes and malignancies, which may therefore interfere with the post-chemotherapy disease evaluation on FDG-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT). We present two cases of malignant pleural mesothelioma treated with talc pleurodesis and neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) before pleurectomy/decortication in which post-NAC FDG-PET/CT showed intense FDG uptakes in the high attenuation areas of pleural thickening with false positive result, whereas post-NAC

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cholinefdgmalignant pleural mesotheliomapet/cttreatment response

Identifiers

PMID30723653
PMCPMC6351117
OpenAlexW2903037707

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