Can fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography detect hepatocellular carcinoma and its extrahepatic metastases?

Aims: The point of this research is to investigate the potential role of (18-F-FDG/PET) in the identification of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and its metastases. Patients and method: The present study was performed on 22 patients (15 newly diagnosed, 7 previously treated).18F-FDG was injected IV 1...

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Main Author: Ekhlas Abdelmonem Ibrahem Nasr Shaban
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-03-01
Series:The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378603X17302000