Items for "¹⁸F-FDG-PET"

PET with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose for staging of non-small cell lung cancer

AIMS: To evaluate studies on the use of positron emission tomography with the glucose analog 18F-fluoro-deoxyglucose (FDG-PET) for the preoperative staging of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) according to the criteria of evidence based medicine and to discuss the cost-effectiveness of the technique. METHODS: Clinical studies published between 1995 and 2002 on the preoperative staging of non-small cell lung cancer were used for this analysis...

Keywords: EbM, nicht kleinzelliges Bronchialkarzinom, Staging, 18 F-FDG-PET, Kosten/Nutzenanalyse