Open AccessOne-by-One Comparison of Lymph Nodes Between 18F-FDG Uptake and Pathological Diagnosis in Esophageal Cancer
Author(s) -
Shuntaro Yoshimura,
Miwako Takahashi,
Susumu Aikou,
Yasuhiro Okumura,
Keiichi Jinbo,
Haruna Onoyama,
Masayuki Urabe,
Koichiro Kawasaki,
Koichi Yagi,
Masaru Nishida,
Kazuhiko Mori,
Hiroharu Yamashita,
Sachiyo Nomura,
K. Koyama,
Toshimitsu Momose,
Hiroyuki Abé,
Tetsuo Ushiku,
Masashi Fukayama,
Yasuyuki Seto
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.637
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1536-0229
pISSN - 0363-9762
DOI - 10.1097/rlu.0000000000003224
Subject(s) - medicine , esophagectomy , esophageal cancer , lymph node , lymph , receiver operating characteristic , dissection (medical) , nuclear medicine , pathological , gamma probe , radiology , cancer , standardized uptake value , positron emission tomography , pathology , sentinel node , breast cancer
Esophagectomy with extended lymph node (LN) dissection is a standard treatment for resectable esophageal cancer to prevent recurrence, but severe, potentially life-threatening postoperative complications are still important issues. Accurate diagnosis of LN metastases would enable the decision to dissect or leave the LNs in regions with high risk of complications. Advancements in intraoperative gamma probe and radioactivity detectors have made intraoperative navigation surgery possible using a radiotracer as a marker. F-FDG is one such candidate markers, and the diagnostic power of FDG through counting the radioactivity close to each LN should be elucidated.