Prospective evaluation of 68Gallium-prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography/computed tomography for preoperative lymph node staging in prostate cancer.
Pim J van LeeuwenLouise EmmettBao HoWarick DelpradoFrancis TingQuoc NguyenPhillip D StrickerPublished in: BJU international (2016)
In patients with intermediate- to high-risk PCa, 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT had a high specificity and a moderate sensitivity for LNM detection. 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT had the potential to replace current imaging for LN staging of patients with PCa scheduled for RP.
Keyphrases
- pet ct
- positron emission tomography
- prostate cancer
- lymph node
- computed tomography
- radical prostatectomy
- high resolution
- pet imaging
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- patients undergoing
- sentinel lymph node
- high intensity
- loop mediated isothermal amplification
- label free
- real time pcr
- squamous cell carcinoma
- human health
- risk assessment
- magnetic resonance imaging
- mass spectrometry