Open AccessCan positron emission tomography/computed tomography be predictive of diagnostic success in endobronchial biopsies performed through a fiber-optic bronchoscopy in lung cancer?
Author(s) -
Coşkun Doğan,
Ali Fidan,
Elif Torun Parmaksız,
Sevda Şener Cömert,
Banu Salepçi,
Benan Çağlayan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
annals of thoracic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.639
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1817-1737
pISSN - 1998-3557
DOI - 10.4103/atm.atm_8_18
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , lung cancer , radiology , bronchoscopy , biopsy , positron emission tomography , lesion , homogeneous , standardized uptake value , nuclear medicine , surgery , pathology , physics , thermodynamics
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of homogeneous/heterogeneous (necrotic) involvement and maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) value of the lesion on positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) of patients who underwent fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) for prediagnosis of lung cancer and biopsy for endobronchial lesion on the diagnostic success of biopsy procedure.