Performance of 18-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography for esophageal cancer screening.

CONCLUSION: This study is the first to clarify the FDG-PET performance for EC screening. Based on the low screen sensitivity, FDG-PET is considered to be difficult to use as a screening modality for ECs.
PMID: 28487611 [PubMed - in process]

Source: World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG - April 21, 2017 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Sekiguchi M, Terauchi T, Kakugawa Y, Shimada N, Saito Y, Matsuda T Tags: World J Gastroenterol Source Type: research