Tumor burden status evaluated by computed tomography scan is of prognostic importance in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Prospective comparison of [18F]fluorodeo

Prospective comparison of [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography with conventional assessment by computed tomography scans and serum tumor markers for the evaluation of residual masses in patients with nonseminomatous germ cell carcinoma

✍ Christian Kollmannsberger; Karin Oechsle; Bernhard M. Dohmen; Anna Pfannenberg; 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 90 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract ## BACKGROUND To assess the ability of [^18^F]fluorodeoxyglucose (F‐18 FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) to predict the viability of residual masses after chemotherapy in patients with metastatic nonseminomatous germ cell tumors (GCT), PET results were compared in a blinded analy