Pulmonary artery enlargement on routine staging 18F-fluodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/CT for lung and oesophageal cancer.
CONCLUSION: Simple measurements of mPA diameter and PA:A ratio reveal that lung cancer patients exhibit increased rates of pulmonary artery enlargement compared to oesophageal cancer patients.
ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE: This study demonstrates there is an increased prevalence of pulmonary enlargement in lung cancer, easily detected on routine, staging scans holding implications for further work-up and risk stratification.
PMID: 32584599 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The British Journal of Radiology - Category: Radiology Authors: Ji-Xu A, Yang Y, Bradley KM Tags: Br J Radiol Source Type: research
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