Role of preoperative PET-CT in assessing mediastinal and hilar lymph node status in early stage lung cancer | Zendy

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Role of preoperative PET-CT in assessing mediastinal and hilar lymph node status in early stage lung cancer

Author(s) -

Wei-Yang Lin,

WenHu Hsu,

Ko-Han Lin,

ShyhJen Wang

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of the chinese medical association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.535

H-Index - 42

eISSN - 1728-7731

pISSN - 1726-4901

DOI - 10.1016/j.jcma.2012.04.004

Subject(s) - medicine , stage (stratigraphy) , standardized uptake value , positron emission tomography , receiver operating characteristic , lung cancer , mediastinal lymph node , lymph node , radiology , pathological , nuclear medicine , pet ct , pathological staging , t stage , cancer , pathology , metastasis , paleontology , biology

Positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography (PET-CT) is important in the assessment and workup of lung cancer staging. However, inconsistencies between clinical image results obtained and pathologic findings of surgical specimens are still very common, particularly in patients with clinical early stage lung cancer. We sought to clarify the role of PET-CT in predicting mediastinal lymph node status preoperatively in clinical early stage lung cancer patients.

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