Preoperative mediastinal and hilar nodal staging with diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in patients with non–small-cell lung cancer: Which is better?

Diagnostic Performance of Diffusion Weighted Imaging of Malignant and Benign Pulmonary Nodules and Masses: Comparison with Positron Emission Tomography

“…DWI can be used to distinguish benign from malignant lesions in the lung Ohba et al, 2009;, in the thorax (Tondo et al, 2011), in the prostate (Yamamura et al, 2011), in the breast (Fornasa et al, 2011), and in the liver (Koike et al, 2009;. DWI was reported to be superior to FDG-PET in the detection of primary lesions and the nodal assessment of non-small cell lung cancers (Usuda et al, 2011;Wu et al, 2012). The advantages of DWI can be explained not only by DWI giving fewer false-positive results for N staging of non-small cell lung cancer compared with FDG-PET , but also by DWI giving fewer false-negative results (Usuda et al, 2011).…”

Update on nodal staging in non-small cell lung cancer with integrated positron emission tomography/computed tomography: a meta-analysis

“…Therefore, further studies should be done to propose the ideal criteria for interpreting PET/CT. Several previous meta-analyses of diagnostic performance of PET/CT in NSCLC have been published since 1999 [6,[50][51][52][53][54][55][56]. Most studies analyzed the reports of dedicated PET only [6,50] or both PET and PET/CT [51,57,58].…”

“…Most studies analyzed the reports of dedicated PET only [6,50] or both PET and PET/CT [51,57,58]. Three meta-analyses from China included 7 (1,248 patients), 14 (2,550 patients), and 19 (2,733 patients) reports of integrated PET/CT [9][10][11]. As the number of primary studies has been increasing rapidly nowadays, we could update and include total 28 studies, 3,255 patients and 11,887 LNs in this current study.…”

“…Previously, 3 meta-analyses have been evaluated the performance of integrated PET/CT in NSCLC [9][10][11], however, the number of primary studies has been increasing rapidly nowadays. Therefore, we updated meta-analysis with the most recent studies to evaluate the test performance of integrated PET/CT for nodal staging based on both nodes and patients.…”

Economic Benefits and Diagnostic Quality of Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Primary Lung Cancer

“…17) An important value of FDG-PET is prediction of tumor aggressiveness. While it is well known to predict tumor aggressiveness by standardized uptake value (SUV) on FDG-PET, ADC value and imaging pattern on DWI are also reported to be well correlated with FDG-accumulation and tumor aggressiveness.…”