Prognostic value of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography and inguinal sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with anal cancer.
Paola De NardiG GuarneriC CanevariA TamburiniN SlimP PassoniR RosatiPublished in: Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (2019)
The technique of SLN biopsy had a better diagnostic accuracy than total body FDG-PET/CT for the staging of inguinal lymph nodes in anal cancer patients; moreover it was a stronger predictor of OS and DFS than PET/CT.
Keyphrases
- positron emission tomography
- sentinel lymph node
- lymph node
- pet ct
- computed tomography
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- ultrasound guided
- fine needle aspiration
- high grade
- papillary thyroid
- early stage
- pet imaging
- radical prostatectomy
- squamous cell
- prostate cancer
- squamous cell carcinoma
- lymph node metastasis
- childhood cancer
- contrast enhanced