作者
Ruoh-Fang Yen, Ke-Cheng Chen, Jang-Ming Lee, Yeun-Chung Chang, Jane Wang, Mei-Fang Cheng, Yen-Wen Wu, Yung-Chie Lee
发表日期
2008/7
期刊
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
卷号
35
页码范围
1305-1315
出版商
Springer-Verlag
简介
Purpose
This study was to compare 18F-FDG positron emission tomography (PET) with thoracic contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) in the ability of lymph node (LN) staging non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in a tuberculosis-prevalent country. The usefulness of dual time point PET imaging (DTPI) in NSCLC nodal staging was also evaluated.
Methods
We reviewed 96 NSCLC patients (mean age, 65.3 ± 11.7 years) who had received PET studies before their surgery. DTPI were performed on 37 patients (mean age, 64.8 ± 12.2 years) who received an additional scan of thorax 3 h after tracer injection. The accuracies of nodal staging by CECT and PET were evaluated according to final histopathology of hilar and mediastinal LN resected by surgery.
Results
The accuracy for nodal staging by CECT was 65.6% and that by …
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