The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 126, Issue 1 , Pages 11-15 , July 2003

Positron emission tomography defines metastatic disease but not locoregional disease in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma

Read at the Eighty-second Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Washington, DC, May 5-8, 2002.

  • Raja M Flores, MD

      Affiliations

    • Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, New York, New York, USAa
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Raja M. Flores, MD, Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA
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  • Timothy Akhurst, MD

      Affiliations

    • Nuclear Medicine Service, Department of Radiology, New York, New York, USAb
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  • Mithat Gonen, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Biostatistics Service, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,c Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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  • Steven M Larson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Nuclear Medicine Service, Department of Radiology, New York, New York, USAb
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  • Valerie W Rusch, MD

      Affiliations

    • Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, New York, New York, USAa

Received 17 July 2002 ,Revised 25 November 2002 ,Accepted 19 December 2002.

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    Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve of primary tumor standard uptake value (SUV) as a predictor of tumor T4 status. The area under the curve (AUC) of 53% indicates a poor accuracy of positron

    Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve of primary tumor standard uptake value (SUV) as a predictor of tumor T4 status. The area under the curve (AUC) of 53% indicates a poor accuracy of positron emission tomography (PET) in predicting tumor status.

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    ROC curve of SUV of the primary tumor as a predictor of N2 status. The AUC of 78% seems potentially useful in predicting the presence of mediastinal nodal disease.

    ROC curve of SUV of the primary tumor as a predictor of N2 status. The AUC of 78% seems potentially useful in predicting the presence of mediastinal nodal disease.

PII: S0022-5223(03)00207-1

doi: 10.1016/S0022-5223(03)00207-1

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 126, Issue 1 , Pages 11-15 , July 2003

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