RECIST revised: implications for the radiologist. A review article on the modified RECIST guideline

Autor: Hans Gelderblom, Els L. van Persijn van Meerten, Johan L. Bloem
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: European Radiology
ISSN: 1432-1084
0938-7994
Popis: The purpose of this review article is to familiarize radiologists with the recently revised Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumours (RECIST), used in many anticancer drug trials to assess response and progression rate. The most important modifications are: a reduction in the maximum number of target lesions from ten to five, with a maximum of two per organ, with a longest diameter of at least 10 mm; in lymph nodes (LNs) the short axis rather than the long axis should be measured, with normal LN measuring
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