2008
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2007.11.019
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Abstract: PET results do not provide acceptable accuracy rates. Mediastinoscopy still remains the gold standard for mediastinal staging of NSCLC, although it cannot reach to all the mediastinal stations.

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
4
1

Citation Types

2
26
0
2

Year Published

2008
2008
2014
2014

Publication Types

Select...
5
3

Relationship

0
8

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 49 publications
(30 citation statements)
references
References 21 publications
2
26
0
2
Order By: Relevance
“…17,18 In the present study, false positivity rate was 26.3% and reactive hyperplasia was found in 65.54% and tuberculosis in 26.92%. The fact that false positivity rate of PET/CT was high led the investigators to conduct new studies.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 82%
See 1 more Smart Citation
“…17,18 In the present study, false positivity rate was 26.3% and reactive hyperplasia was found in 65.54% and tuberculosis in 26.92%. The fact that false positivity rate of PET/CT was high led the investigators to conduct new studies.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 82%
“…9 Recently, as a consequence of integrating the PET and CT methodologies, integrated PET/CT method has been introduced to clinical practice which is an anatomic-metabolic imaging modality. The optimum time in the discrimination between malignant and benignant lesion was given in the literature as 50-60 minutes after 18 FDG injection which is peak for lesion background ratio. In the present study post -injection was monitored in the 60th minute.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…With the introduction of PET/CT, as shown for the first time by Lardinois et al, the accuracy in detecting local and distant metastases has even increased [7,27]. However, further studies have not confirmed these preliminary results (see Table 5 [12][13][14][15][16][17]20]). Therefore at present the sensitivity and accuracy of PET/CT in the mediastinal lymph node staging are considered too low to avoid further invasive studies [28], and the role of PET and mediastinoscopy is under discussion.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 49%
“…Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative In Table 5 [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29], we compared our results with the data showed in the literature analyzing the number of patients, the number of dissected lymph node stations and the sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values and accuracy, on a per-patient and on a pernodal station analysis (when possible).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Generally, SUVmax values are lower than other types of lung cancer with lower tumour metabolism, such as in epithelioidtype MPM or adenocarcinoma, in contrast, infectious or granulomatosus diseases can cause false-positive results without malignancy on PET. 19,20,21 Four patients with a false-positive PET result were diagnosed with infectious pleuritis, and one was diagnosed with tuberculosis in the pleural thickening group. We think that the false-negative PET/CT results are due to the low tumour metabolism of MPM, and that the false-positive PET/CT results are due to the infectious process.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%