Prognostic significance of baseline posi
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Akihiro Suzuki; Lianchun Xiao; Yuki Hayashi; Homer A. Macapinlac; James Welsh; S
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## BACKGROUND: Metabolic imaging is of interest in esophageal cancer; however, the usefulness of initial standardized uptake value (SUV) in positron emission tomography (PET) is unknown in patients with esophageal or gastroesophageal carcinoma treated with definitive chemoradiotherapy.