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ArticleWorld journal of nuclear medicine

Prostate-specific antigen and risk of bone metastases in west Africans with prostate cancer.

Yaw Ampem Amoako, Emmanuel Nii Boye Hammond, Awo Assasie-Gyimah, Dennis Odai Laryea, Alfred Ankrah, George Amoah

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Article in World journal of nuclear medicine. 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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0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Yaw Ampem AmoakoDepartment of Medicine, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, West Africa.
Emmanuel Nii Boye HammondDepartment of Nuclear Medicine Service, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana, West Africa.
Awo Assasie-GyimahDepartment of Nuclear Medicine Service, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana, West Africa.
Dennis Odai LaryeaDepartment of Non Communicable Disease Control Programme, Ghana Health Service Headquarters, Accra, Ghana, West Africa.
Alfred AnkrahDepartment of Nuclear Medicine Service, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana, West Africa.
George AmoahDepartment of Surgery, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, West Africa.
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital · GHKorle Bu Teaching Hospital · GHGhana Health Service · GHUniversity of Pretoria · ZA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We aimed to assess the relationship between bone scintigraphy findings and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and Gleason score in a group of treatment naïve West Africans with prostate cancer. The age, PSA, and Gleason scores of 363 patients with prostate cancer were collected. Patients were risk stratified using the D'Amico criteria. Logistic regression was performed to assess the relationship between bone scan results and PSA and Gleason score. Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analysis was used to determine the diagnostic reliability of the bone scan findings. Ninety of the 96 patients with metastases had high risk, and only 6 had low-to-intermediate risk disease (

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Bone scintigraphyGhanaGleason scoreprostate cancerprostate-specific antigen

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PMID31040745
PMCPMC6476246
OpenAlexW2930082340

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