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ID 106025
著者
大塚, 秀樹 Department of Medical Imaging, Institute of Health Biosciences, Tokushima University Graduate School 徳島大学 教育研究者総覧 KAKEN研究者をさがす
キーワード
thymic epithelial tumor
FDG-PET
diagnosis
staging
pathology
資料タイプ
学術雑誌論文
抄録
In this article, seven studies evaluating the utility of FDG-PET in the diagnosis of thymic epithelial tumors were reviewed and the results of an investigation conducted in Tokushima University Hospital are reported. FDG accumulation of low-risk thymoma is low, and FDG accumulation of thymic carcinoma is high. High-risk thymoma exhibits various degrees of accumulation and a definite conclusion has not yet been reached ; however, overall, the higher the histological grade, the higher the FDG accumulation becomes, suggesting that this is correlated to staging. Our data also support the previous reports. FDG-PET may indicate lymph node metastasis and distant metastasis, which are sometimes difficult to detect using other modalities. When lymph node metastasis and/or distant metastasis are suspected in addition to thymic lesions, FDG-PET/CT, which allows for searching of the entire body at once, is useful. FDG-PET/CT is effective for estimating histopathological malignancy and staging in the diagnosis of thymic epithelial tumors and can be an important imaging test with high relevance to the prognosis of a patient.
掲載誌名
The journal of medical investigation : JMI
ISSN
13431420
cat書誌ID
AA11166929
59
3-4
開始ページ
225
終了ページ
234
並び順
225
発行日
2012-08
EDB ID
フルテキストファイル
言語
eng
著者版フラグ
出版社版
部局
医学系