Lung cancer staging: the value of PET depends on the clinical setting
Detterbeck FC, Figueroa Almanzar S. Lung cancer staging: the value of PET depends on the clinical setting. Journal Of Thoracic Disease 2014, 6: 1714-23. PMID: 25589964, PMCID: PMC4283348, DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.11.16.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchClinical settingEvaluation of patientsInvasive mediastinal stagingPositron emission tomography (PET) imagingEmission Tomography ImagingValue of PETInvasive stagingImpact of PETM1 diseaseN2 diseasePET findingsMediastinal stagingLung cancerRealist synthesis methodResectionClinical contextTomography imagingPatientsRCTsEvaluation of differencesHigher chanceStagingInconsistent resultsDiseaseTraditional imaging