TY - BOOK AU - Alaa Eldin Nagy Ahmed AU - Khaled Mohamed Taalab , AU - Shahenda Sabry , TI - Role of FDG PET in evaluation of lymphoma / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Alaa Eldin Nagy Ahmed , KW - Barr virus KW - Epstein KW - Gallium N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Nuclear Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - The current thesis revealed better overall sensitivity , specificity and accuracy for FDG PET over CT . Compared with CT that was used as part of the staging procedures in this study , PET detected 50 additional lesions (32 nodal , 18 extra - nodal) of the discordant findings , that were false negative by CT , but they were verified as true positive by PET . Of these lesions , 24 % were clinically relevant and led to an upstaging in 12 (13 %) of 91 patients UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -