Utility of Positron Emission Tomography for the Staging of Patients With Potentially Operable Esophageal Carcinoma
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- 18 September 2000
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Vol. 18 (18) , 3202-3210
- https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2000.18.18.3202
Abstract
PURPOSE: A prospective study of preoperative tumor-node-metastasis staging of patients with esophageal cancer (EC) was designed to compare the accuracy of 18-F-fluoro-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG) positron...Keywords
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