Open AccessThe Relationship of SUV Value in PET-CT with Tumor Differentiation and Tumor Markers in Gastric Cancer
Author(s) -
Adem Maman,
Ali Şahin,
Arif Kürşad Ayan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the eurasian journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1308-8742
pISSN - 1308-8734
DOI - 10.5152/eurasianjmed.2019.19016
Subject(s) - medicine , carcinoembryonic antigen , adenocarcinoma , stage (stratigraphy) , standardized uptake value , positron emission tomography , cancer , primary tumor , pathological , metastasis , signet ring cell carcinoma , pathology , radiology , nuclear medicine , paleontology , biology
We aimed to investigate the relationship between the use of fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT), maximized standardized uptake value (SUVmax) values of tumors, and tumor differentiation and tumor markers during the initial staging of patients with gastric cancer.