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ArticleScientific reports2020

Role of Early PET/CT Imaging with 68Ga-PSMA in Staging and Restaging of Prostate Cancer.

Andrew Barakat, Basel Yacoub, Maria El Homsi, Amro Saad Aldine, Albert El Hajj, Mohamad B Haidar

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Andrew BarakatDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Basel YacoubDepartment of Radiology and Radiological Science, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9294-7100
Maria El HomsiDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Amro Saad AldineDepartment of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States.
Albert El HajjDepartment of Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Mohamad B HaidarDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon. mh209@aub.edu.lb.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6431-3274
American University of Beirut Medical Center · LBMedical University of South Carolina · USUniversity of Iowa · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ga-68 Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen PET/CT is a new tool for the assessment of prostate cancer. Standard imaging time is 60 minutes post injection of radiotracer. At 60 minutes, there is physiologic accumulation of radiotracer in the urinary bladder which may cause some lesions in its vicinity to be obscured. Our aim is to determine if early imaging at 3 minutes in addition to standard imaging at 60 minutes can improve the detection of PSMA-avid lesions. A retrospective review of 167 consecutive patients was conducted. Overall, 115 patients (68.9%) were ruled to have prostate cancer based on imaging as seen on early or standard PET/CT images. In 106/115 (64%), the lesions were detected on both early and standard imaging; in 8/115 (6.9%), the lesions were only detected on early imaging; in 1/115 (0.6%) the lesion was detected only on standard imaging. The addition of early imaging significantly improved the overall detection rate of PSMA-avid lesions (p = 0.039). The ratio of patients with lesions detected on early imaging but not on standard imaging in restaging group was 7/88 and was higher than that in staging group 1/79 (p = 0.043). We recommend early imaging in addition to the standard imaging in Ga-68 PSMA PET/CT, particularly in patients presenting for restaging of prostate cancer.

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AgedEarly Detection of CancerGallium IsotopesGallium RadioisotopesHumansImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedMaleMembrane GlycoproteinsMiddle AgedNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalNeoplasm StagingOrganometallic CompoundsPositron Emission Tomography Computed TomographyProstateProstatic NeoplasmsRadiopharmaceuticalsgallium 68 PSMA-11Gallium IsotopesGallium RadioisotopesMembrane GlycoproteinsOrganometallic CompoundsRadiopharmaceuticals

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