The role of 18F - FDG-PET (Florine -18 flurodeoxglucose positron emission tomography) imaging in the follow up of patients with colorectal carcinoma /
دور المسح البوزيترونى المقطعى باستخدام فلورين 18 فلوروديؤكسى جلوكوز فى متابعة مرضى سرطان القولون
Shaimaa Farouk Abdelhay ; Supervised Sherif Mohammad Elrefaie , Khaled Mohammad Taalab , Gehan Ahmad Younis
- Cairo : Shaimaa Farouk Abdelhay , 2013
- 127 Leaves : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Nuclear Medicine
All were planned to be subjected to whole body 18F - FDG-PET imaging in order to evaluate suspected either loco-regional recurrence or distant metastasis . Because the PET system was dismantled and replaced by a new PET/CT device only 32 patients were imaged by the PET system while the rest of the patients (35) were imaged by the PET/CT system and for the same purposes