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OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to investigate the diagnostic performance of postoperative fluorine-18 fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose ((18)F-FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) as a surveillance modality for advanced gastric cancer patients who were asymptomatic and negative by conventional follow-up. METHODS:We retrospectively collected 46 advanced gastric cancer patients who received approximately 1-year-postoperative (18)F-FDG PET/CT surveillance following curative resection (mean age 60.6 ± 11.5 years). (18)F-FDG PET/CT was interpreted by nuclear medicine physicians who were blind to the clinical information. Final confirmation was determined by clinical follow-up using tumor markers, conventional CT scan, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and with/without subsequent histopathologic diagnosis. RESULTS:Four patients developed recurrence (8.7 %; 1 local and 3 distant recurrences). For local recurrence, (18)F-FDG PET/CT found four hypermetabolic lesions and one was local recurrence. For distant recurrence, seven hypermetabolic lesions were found in six patients and true-positive was three lesions. False-positive cases were mainly turned out to be physiologic small bowel uptake. Regardless of the recurrence site, the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of (18)F-FDG PET/CT were 100 % (4/4, 95 % confidence interval (CI) 39.6-100 %), 88.1 % (37/42, 95 % CI 73.6-95.5 %), 44.4 % (4/9, 95 % CI 15.3-77.3 %) and 100 % (37/37, 95 % CI 88.3-100 %), respectively in the patient-based analysis. CONCLUSION:Our study showed good specificity of postoperative surveillance (18)F-FDG PET/CT for detecting recurrence. Careful caution should be made for interpreting some false-positive hypermetabolic lesions in postoperative (18)F-FDG PET/CT, especially at the local anastomosis site.
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Ann Nucl Medjournal_title
Annals of nuclear medicineauthors
Lee DY,Lee CH,Seo MJ,Lee SH,Ryu JS,Lee JJdoi
10.1007/s12149-014-0871-4subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-10-01 00:00:00pages
789-95issue
8eissn
0914-7187issn
1864-6433journal_volume
28pub_type
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s12149-007-0020-4
更新日期:2007-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF02990021
更新日期:2003-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF03164741
更新日期:1996-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Rest thallium-201 (201Tl) myocardial perfusion imaging has been widely used for evaluation of myocardial ischemia/viability after myocardial infarction, but the ideal timing for imaging after injection to maximally estimate viability is not well established. METHODS:Thirty-six patients with myocardial infar...
journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF02985586
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s12149-017-1188-x
更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s12149-015-0994-2
更新日期:2015-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:A complication after spinal fusion surgery is pseudarthrosis, but its radiological diagnosis is of limited value. (18)F-fluoride PET with its ability to assess bone metabolism activity could be of value. The goal of this study was to assess the clinical feasibility of calculating the static standardized uptak...
journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s12149-015-1008-0
更新日期:2015-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Pulmonary emphysema can be diagnosed easily by X-ray CT (CT) as a low attenuation area. Recently Tc-99m-Technegas (Technegas) has been used for ventilation scintigraphy. The present study was undertaken to assess the usefulness of planar and SPECT images by using Technegas scintigraphy in patients with pulmonary emphy...
journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF03164818
更新日期:1997-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s12149-015-0972-8
更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s12149-018-1299-z
更新日期:2019-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s12149-018-1315-3
更新日期:2019-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report a functional neuroimaging study of a 43-year-old woman with Nasu-Hakola disease (NHD). Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) images were measured with technetium-99m ethyl cysteinate dimer single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). rCBF was decreased in the bilateral frontal lobes and thalamus. This f...
journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF02984623
更新日期:2005-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s12149-014-0830-0
更新日期:2014-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Fine 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose (18FDG) powder was obtained by adding diethyl ether into a methyl alcohol solution of 18FDG and other sugar as seed. When micronized particles of sodium N-acetyl-neuraminate (Neu5Ac-Na) were used as seed crystals, particles containing 18FDG were obtained and 80% of them were smalle...
journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF03178301
更新日期:1989-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF03165414
更新日期:1998-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s12149-016-1103-x
更新日期:2016-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s12149-013-0776-7
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s12149-008-0166-8
更新日期:2008-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF03164610
更新日期:1991-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s12149-007-0116-x
更新日期:2008-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/BF03164930
更新日期:1999-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF03164879
更新日期:1999-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF03178307
更新日期:1992-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF03164947
更新日期:1988-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF02984475
更新日期:2004-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::In this review I summarize observations of PET and SPECT studies about cerebral blood flow and metabolic abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease. In very early AD flow or metabolism reduces first in the posterior cingulate gyrus and precuneus. This reduction may arise from functional deafferentation caused by primary neu...
journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/BF02988596
更新日期:2001-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF03164794
更新日期:1993-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF03027389
更新日期:2005-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:(11)C-Methionine positron emission tomography (MET-PET) has been used to distinguish brain tumor recurrence from radiation necrosis. Because the spatial resolution of conventional PET scanners is low, partial volume effect (PVE) may decrease the detectability of small tumor recurrence. The aim of this study i...
journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s12149-010-0450-2
更新日期:2011-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of nuclear medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF02988647
更新日期:2002-11-01 00:00:00