Metabolic and magnetic resonance imaging: complementary modalities for the preoperative assessment of lateral pelvic lymph nodes in rectal cancer.
Benjamin I CribbJoseph Cherng Huei KongJames S KayTeng H TanGeertje D NoeBibiche GestAllan B LeeSheng F OonSatish K WarrierAlexander G HeriotPublished in: ANZ journal of surgery (2022)
Lateral pelvic lymph node imaging features on post-neoadjuvant therapy MRI and PET-CT predicted those at risk of rectal cancer recurrence. Further studies are required to confirm these findings that suggest restaging MRI and PET-CT are complementary modalities for the preoperative assessment of lateral pelvic lymph nodes in rectal cancer.
Keyphrases
- rectal cancer
- pet ct
- lymph node
- magnetic resonance imaging
- locally advanced
- contrast enhanced
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- minimally invasive
- sentinel lymph node
- positron emission tomography
- diffusion weighted imaging
- computed tomography
- high resolution
- magnetic resonance
- stem cells
- mesenchymal stem cells
- bone marrow
- mass spectrometry