TY - BOOK AU - Abouelmagd Elnouby Ahmed AU - Hosna Mohamed Moustafa , AU - Jehan Ahmed Younes , AU - Khaled Mohamed Taalab , TI - Role of fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose(F-18-FDG)positron emission tomograph(PET)in management of gastrointestinal malignancy / PY - 2008/// CY - Cairo : PB - Abouelmagd Elnouby Ahmed , KW - Alfa KW - Endosongraphy KW - Fetoprotein N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Nuclear Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - FDG is used because it is taken up by many types of tumors and produces images of good contrast PET has been found to assist recurrence in patients with different tumors PET using F-18 FDG is more accurate than CT or other conventional imaging modalities for diagnosis of previously unknown recurrent or metastatic malignant foci UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -