Open AccessComparative Efficacy of Positron Emission Tomography with FDG and Computed Tomographic Scanning in Preoperative Staging of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Author(s) -
Naresh Gupta,
Geoffrey M. Graeber,
John Rogers,
Harry A. Bishop
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/00000658-199902000-00018
Subject(s) - medicine , mediastinoscopy , positron emission tomography , lung cancer , radiology , lymph node , nuclear medicine , mediastinal lymph node , tomography , lymph , mediastinum , cancer , metastasis , pathology
To determine the sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of positron emission tomography with 2-fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (PET-FDG) in the preoperative staging (N and M staging) of patients with lung cancer. The authors wanted to compare the efficacy of PET scanning with currently used computed tomography (CT) scanning.