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Thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography as an indicator of prognosis for patients with lung carcinoma

✍ Scribed by Hironori Takekawa; Kazuo Takaoka; Eriko Tsukamoto; Kakuko Kanegae; Fredrick Miller; Yoshikazu Kawakami

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 113 KB
Volume: 80
Category: Article
ISSN: 0008-543X
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19970715)80:2<198::aid-cncr5>3.0.co;2-q

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RESULTS.

The authors studied 152 patients (125 men and 27 women). The group 2 Department of Nuclear Medicine, School of of patients with the low Tl-201 uptake ratio survived longer than the group of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

patients with the high Tl-201 uptake ratio (median survival, 58 weeks vs. 33 weeks; P Å 0.0138 by the log rank test). The multivariate analysis confirmed that the Tl-

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