Open AccessRelationship between the maximum standardized uptake value of fluoro-2-deoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography and clinicopathological characteristics in tongue squamous cell carcinoma
Author(s) -
Dong Zheng,
Lixuan Niu,
Wenpeng Liu,
Changgang Zheng,
Ruyi Yan,
Liyan Gong,
Zhongxing Dong,
Jun Fei,
Ke Li
Publication year - 2019
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_855_18
Subject(s) - medicine , standardized uptake value , receiver operating characteristic , stage (stratigraphy) , positron emission tomography , metastasis , lymph node , tongue , nuclear medicine , carcinoma , cancer , radiology , pathology , paleontology , biology
Tongue carcinoma is one of the most common oral and maxillofacial malignant tumors worldwide, maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) in 18 F-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has been widely used in cancer research; however, there are few systematical reports on the relationship between SUVmax and clinicopathological characteristics in tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC). This study aimed to investigate the relationship between them and whether SUV parameters can predict lymph node metastasis.