Open AccessDifferentiating renal pelvic cancer from renal cell carcinoma with 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography
Author(s) -
Murat Dursun,
Emin Özbek,
Alper Ötünçtemur,
Hüseyin Beşiroğlu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_217_16
Subject(s) - medicine , renal cell carcinoma , positron emission tomography , radiology , standardized uptake value , nuclear medicine , renal pelvis , pelvis , magnetic resonance imaging , cancer , differential diagnosis , kidney , pathology
The differential diagnosis of pelvis renalis cancer (PRC) from renal cell cancer (RCC) is difficult. Because of that, in this study, we compared the standardized uptake value (SUV) with positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) of the RCC and PRC.