Innovations in breast cancer imaging: PET for diagnosis and follow-up.

Autor: Adler LP; Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C, USA., Bakale G, Schnur KC, Shenk RR
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Medscape women's health [Medscape Womens Health] 1998 Nov; Vol. 3 (6), pp. 5.
Abstrakt: Could positron emission tomography (PET), which identifies the higher metabolism of malignant tumors, become the noninvasive test needed to assess the thousands of falsely positive mammograms? Could serial scans be used to evaluate response to chemotherapy? This team examines the data on current and potential uses of PET.
Databáze: MEDLINE