Usefulness of positron emission tomography for differentiating gliomas according to the 2016 World Health Organization classification of tumors of the central nervous system.

CONCLUSIONS: PET imaging using MET, CHO, and FDG was suggested to be informative for preoperatively differentiating gliomas according to the 2016 WHO classification, particularly for differentiating IDH-wt and IDH-mut tumors.
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Source: Journal of Neurosurgery - August 15, 2019 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Takei H, Shinoda J, Ikuta S, Maruyama T, Muragaki Y, Kawasaki T, Ikegame Y, Okada M, Ito T, Asano Y, Yokoyama K, Nakayama N, Yano H, Iwama T Tags: J Neurosurg Source Type: research