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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Apr 2007
Case ReportsPositron emission tomography staging of pleural deposits following Monaldi's procedure: an accurate reflection or a false staging?
- Nael Al-Sarraf, Kishore Doddakula, Trudy Wedde, and Vincent Young.
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland. trinityq8@hotmail.com
- Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2007 Apr 1; 6 (2): 260-1.
AbstractPositron emission tomography (PET) has become widely available in staging non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and despite its high accuracy, false positive staging remains a problem. We report a rare case where such false positive staging caused a dilemma in optimal management.
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