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Brain Cancer
Data on brain cancer detailed by researchers at Fudan University
May 13th, 2008
According to recent research from Shanghai, People's Republic of China, "Background and objective The widely applied (18)FDG is known for its disadvantage in brain tumour PET imaging because of its high background uptake. C-11-choline can achieve high contrast of brain tumour imaging and was expected to have higher sensitivity and specificity." "We analysed the misdiagnoses in C-11-choline PET imaging in brain tumours with the aim of improving the accuracy of diagnosis with C-11-choline PET imaging. Patients and methods We selected 10 patients proven to have been misdiagnosed on the basis of histopathological correlation and clinical follow-up among 94 patients (110...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-05-13)
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