Role of (18)F-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography in Gastric GIST: Predicting Malignant Potential Pre-operatively

PURPOSE: It is difficult to obtain biopsies from gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) prior to surgery because GISTs are submucoal tumors, despite being the most common nonepithelial neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract. Unlike anatomic imaging techniques, PET-CT, which is a molecular imaging...

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Autores principales: Park, Jeon-Woo, Cho, Chang-Ho, Jeong, Duck-Su, Chae, Hyun-Dong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Gastric Cancer Association 2011
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22076223
http://dx.doi.org/10.5230/jgc.2011.11.3.173

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22076223
http://dx.doi.org/10.5230/jgc.2011.11.3.173

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