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Very Low Prostate PET/CT PSMA Uptake May Be Misleading in Staging Radical Prostatectomy Candidates.

Barak RosenzweigRennen HaramatyTima DavidsonAlon LazarovichAsaf ShveroMiki HaiflerJonathan GalShay GolanSagi ShpitzerAzik HoffmanOmri NativYuval FreifeldRani ZreikZohar A Dotan
Published in: Journal of personalized medicine (2022)
Disease aggressiveness generally correlated with an intense PSMA uptake on the preoperative PSMA PET/CT, but a subpopulation of patients with clinically significant cancer and aggressive characteristics showed a deceptively weak PSMA uptake. These data raise a concern about the unqualified application of PSMA PET/CT for staging RP candidates.
Keyphrases
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  • prostate cancer
  • radical prostatectomy
  • positron emission tomography
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  • computed tomography
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