Additional Value of FDG-PET/MRI Complementary to Sentinel Lymphonodectomy for Minimal Invasive Lymph Node Staging in Patients with Endometrial Cancer: A Prospective Study.
Matthias WeissingerLidia BalaSara Yvonne BruckerStefan KommossSascha HoffmannFerdinand SeithKonstantin NikolaouChristian Peter la FougèreChristina Barbara WalterHelmut DittmannPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2024)
The combination of FDG-PET/MRI and SLNE can reduce the need for diagnostic systematic LNE by up to 87%. PET/MRI complements the SLN technique particularly in the detection of para-aortic LNM and occasional distant metastases.
Keyphrases
- pet ct
- lymph node
- positron emission tomography
- pet imaging
- endometrial cancer
- contrast enhanced
- computed tomography
- magnetic resonance imaging
- diffusion weighted imaging
- sentinel lymph node
- heart failure
- squamous cell carcinoma
- pulmonary hypertension
- atrial fibrillation
- loop mediated isothermal amplification
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- quantum dots
- rectal cancer
- sensitive detection
- free survival