Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

The Korean Society of Nuclear Medicine (대한핵의학회)
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Clinical Application of $^{18}F-FDG$ PET in Wilms Tumor

빌름스 종양 (Wilms Tumor)에서 $^{18}F-FDG$ PET의 임상 이용

  • Seok, Ju-Won (Department of Nuclear Medicine, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University)
  • Published : 2008.12.31
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Abstract

Wilms Tumor is a great therapeutic success story within pediatric oncology. Therefore, accurate initial staging is needed to assess tumor spread and to assign patients appropriately to the different risk branches. However, it is recognized that FDG-PET can provide useful information about tumor and has better accuracy than CT and MRI for staging, but its role in Wilms tumor is unclear. According to clinical research data, FDG PET may be useful for the management of selected patients with Wilms tumors.

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