Effectiveness of Repeat 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography Computerized Tomography (PET-CT) Scan in Identifying Interval Metastases for Patients with Esophageal Cancer.

Emmanuel M GabrielRaed AlnajiWilliam DuKristopher AttwoodMoshim KukarSteven Hochwald

Published in: Annals of surgical oncology (2017)

The yield of post-nCRT PET-CT for the detection of new metastatic disease was 3.9%. Post-nCRT PET-CT often leads to a high proportion of false positives and subsequent investigational work-up.

Keyphrases

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