Staging of Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer with Integrated Positron-Emission Tomography and Computed Tomography
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- 19 June 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 348 (25), 2500-2507
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa022136
Abstract
We compared the diagnostic accuracy of integrated positron-emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) with that of CT alone, that of PET alone, and that of conventional visual correlation of PET and CT in determining the stage of disease in non–small-cell lung cancer.Keywords
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