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ArticleGland surgery2021

The usefulness of fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography as a preoperative diagnostic tool for thymic epithelial tumors.

Tsutomu Tatematsu, Katsuhiro Okuda, Yushi Saito, Risa Oda, Tadashi Sakane, Keisuke Yokota, Katsuhiko Endo, Ryoichi Nakanishi

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Article in Gland surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Tsutomu TatematsuDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, Toyota Memorial Hospital, Toyota, Japan.
Katsuhiro OkudaDepartment of Oncology, Immunology and Surgery, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan.
Yushi SaitoDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, Toyota Memorial Hospital, Toyota, Japan.
Risa OdaDepartment of Oncology, Immunology and Surgery, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan.
Tadashi SakaneDepartment of Oncology, Immunology and Surgery, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan.
Keisuke YokotaDepartment of Oncology, Immunology and Surgery, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan.
Katsuhiko EndoDepartment of Oncology, Immunology and Surgery, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan.
Ryoichi NakanishiDepartment of Oncology, Immunology and Surgery, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan.
Nagoya City University · JPToyota Memorial Hospital · JP

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Abstract

backgroundTo investigate the usefulness of

methodsWe retrospectively investigated 51 patients with TETs performed

resultsThe mean SUVmax of thymic carcinomas (n=12) and thymomas (n=39) was 5.71±2.6 and 3.08±1.4, respectively. The SUVmax of thymic carcinomas was significantly higher than that of thymomas (P<0.001). The mean SUVmax of these small thymic carcinomas (n=3) and thymomas (n=13) was 2.97±0.24 and 1.79±0.47, respectively. The SUVmax of the small thymic carcinomas was significantly higher than that of the thymomas (P=0.001). We found a positive correlation between the SUVmax and the maximum tumor size of TETs (correlation coefficient: 0.632, P<0.001).

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18F-fluorodeoxy glucose-positron emission tomography (18F-FDG PET)preoperative diagnosisthymic carcinomathymic epithelial tumors (TETs)

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PMID33708551
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