Clinical and translational research challenges in biliary tract cancers

A Lamarca, M Frizziero… - Current Medicinal …, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Biliary Tract Cancers (BTC) are rare malignancies with a poor prognosis. There
are many challenges encountered in treating these patients in daily practice as well as in …

Comparison of magnetic resonance imaging and 18-fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the diagnostic accuracy of staging in …

X Huang, J Yang, J Li, Y Xiong - Medicine, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background: Accurate clinical staging of patients with cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) has a
significant impact on treatment decisions. In this study, we aimed to compare the diagnostic …

Management implications of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance in untreated intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

C Ferrone, L Goyal, M Qadan, D Gervais… - European journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is associated with a poor prognosis with
surgical resection offering the best chance for long-term survival and potential cure …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnostic performance and prognostic relevance of FDG positron emission tomography/computed tomography for patients with extrahepatic …

NH Kim, SR Lee, YH Kim, HJ Kim - Korean Journal of Radiology, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective We aimed to evaluate the diagnostic value and prognostic relevance of FDG
positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET-CT) in extrahepatic …

18-FDG PET-CT should be included in preoperative staging of gall bladder cancer

S Goel, A Aggarwal, A Iqbal, M Gupta, A Rao… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Only few retrospective studies have looked into the ability of PET-CT to
diagnose distant metastases in gall bladder cancer (GBC) patients with variable results. This …

Early recurrence detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT in patients with resected pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

L Wang, P Dong, W Wang, M Li, W Hu, X Liu, B Tian - Medicine, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Abstract 18 F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography integrated with
computed tomography (18 F-FDG PET/CT) has been proved to be practical in detecting …

Management strategies for patients with hilar cholangiocarcinomas: challenges and solutions

S Mehrotra, S Lalwani, S Nundy - Hepatic Medicine: Evidence and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Advances in imaging, pathology and therapy have resulted in major improvements in the
management of cholangiocarcinomas; the mortality has come down and with it there has …

[HTML][HTML] Usefulness of 18F-FDG PET/CT and multiphase CT in the differential diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma and combined hepatocellular carcinoma …

JC Park, JG Park, GS Jung, H Kang… - Journal of the Korean …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of multiphasic CT and 18
F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT for the differentiation of combined hepatocellular …

The utility of PET/computed tomography for radiation oncology planning, surveillance, and prognosis prediction of gastrointestinal tumors

SR Rice, M Chuong, A Koroulakis, OM Siddiqui… - PET clinics, 2020 - pet.theclinics.com
In 2018, gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies accounted for 26.3% and 18.6% of cancer
diagnoses and 35.4% and 27.3% of cancer-related mortality worldwide and in the United …

Elevated 68Ga-DOTATATE activity in fibrous cortical defect

Z Wen, L Zhang, V Batra, H Zhuang - Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Abstract FDG PET/CT was performed for staging in a 15-year-old adolescent girl with
cholangiocarcinoma, which showed only mild activity in the tumor but more impressive FDG …