The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 125, Issue 4 , Pages 938-944 , April 2003

Positron emission tomography scanning with 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose as a predictor of response of neoadjuvant treatment for non-small cell carcinoma

Read at the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of The Western Thoracic Surgical Association, Big Sky, Mont, June 19-22, 2002.

Received 10 July 2002 ,Revised 7 October 2002 ,Accepted 18 October 2002.

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☆ Address for reprints: Robert J. Cerfolio, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1900 University Blvd, THT 712, Birmingham, AL 35294 (E-mail: Robert.cerfolio@ccc.uab.edu).

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doi: 10.1067/mtc.2003.381

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 125, Issue 4 , Pages 938-944 , April 2003

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