Open Journal of Gastroenterology

Vol.6 No.11(2016), Paper ID 72459, 13 pages

DOI:10.4236/ojgas.2016.611040

 

An Absolute Standardized Uptake Value Is More Useful than the Decreased Rate of Uptake of FDG-PET to Predict Responses to Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy for Esophageal Cancer

 

Masanobu Nakajima, Hiroyuki Kato, Tatsuya Miyazaki, Takanori Inose, Naritaka Tanaka, Shigemasa Suzuki, Takehiko Yokobori, Makoto Sakai, Akihiko Sano, Keisuke Ieta, Makoto Sohda, Minoru Fukuchi, Hiroyuki Kuwano

 

Department of Surgery I, Dokkyo Medical University, Mibu, Japan
Department of Surgery I, Dokkyo Medical University, Mibu, Japan
Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

 

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Nakajima, M. , Kato, H. , Miyazaki, T. , Inose, T. , Tanaka, N. , Suzuki, S. , Yokobori, T. , Sakai, M. , Sano, A. , Ieta, K. , Sohda, M. , Fukuchi, M. and Kuwano, H. (2016) An Absolute Standardized Uptake Value Is More Useful than the Decreased Rate of Uptake of FDG-PET to Predict Responses to Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy for Esophageal Cancer. Open Journal of Gastroenterology, 6, 373-385. doi: 10.4236/ojgas.2016.611040.

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