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

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

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

Author(s) -

Tsutomu Tatematsu,

Katsuhiro Okuda,

Yushi Saito,

Risa Oda,

Tadashi Sakane,

Keisuke Yokota,

Katsuhiko Endo,

Ryoichi Nakanishi

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

gland surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.643

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 2227-8575

pISSN - 2227-684X

DOI - 10.21037/gs-20-718

Subject(s) - medicine , thymic carcinoma , thymoma , positron emission tomography , standardized uptake value , malignancy , nuclear medicine , fluorodeoxyglucose , pathology , radiology

To investigate the usefulness of 18 F-fluorodeoxy glucose-positron emission tomography ( 18 F-FDG PET) for the preoperative imaging diagnosis of malignant grade in thymic epithelial tumors (TETs) and the correlation between the maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) and tumor size in TETs.

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