A pilot study of the correlation between lymph node metastasis in colorectal cancer patients found by pre-operative 18FDG PET/CT scan and results of final histopathology
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MATERIALS AND METHODS. This retrospective study gathered the information from patient medical records at Bangkok Hospital Medical Center. The patients were examined for colorectal cancer from May 2007 to November 2009 and received the pre-operative positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scan before having oncologic colorectal surgery during the time period mentioned above. The subjects in this study numbered 30 patients. Each 18FDG PET/CT scan was reviewed and interpreted by one nuclear medicine professional who had no prior knowledge of patient details, including the diagnosis of any previous PET/CT scans.
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