Current literature suggests insufficient accuracy of endoscopic biopsies, EUS, and 18F-FDG PET(-CT) as single modalities for detecting residual disease after nCRT for esophageal cancer.
We present a rare case of ectopic PTC within the esophagus with focal FDG activity on FDG PET in a 43-year-old woman who was previously diagnosed as having esophageal cancer based on the endoscopy and PET findings.
The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the efficacy of 4DST PET/CT for predicting responses to neoadjuvant therapy in patients with esophageal cancer comparing with FDG PET/CT.
Role of intravoxel incoherent motion parameters in gastro-esophageal cancer: relationship with 18F-FDG-PET, CT perfusion and MR perfusion imaging parameters.
A Diagnostic Algorithm That Combines Quantitative 18F-FDG PET Parameters and Contrast-Enhanced CT Improves Posttherapeutic Locoregional Restaging and Prognostication of Survival in Patients With Esophageal Cancer.
Overall, 18F-FDG PET/CT have a moderate to low sensitivity and a high to moderate specificity for detection of regional nodal metastasis in esophageal cancer.
Intratreatment Response Assessment With 18F-FDG PET: Correlation of Semiquantitative PET Features With Pathologic Response of Esophageal Cancer to Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy.
We determined the value of F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) for the assessment of preoperative lymph node metastases in patients with esophageal cancer.
In this study, we investigated the relationship between the superficial tumor depth of esophageal cancer and the FDG uptake to determine the indications for endoscopic resection (ER).
PET-CT studies with 18F-FAMT and 18F-FDG were performed as part of pretreatment work-up in 82 patients with histologically confirmed esophageal cancer.
The analysis included diagnostic studies reporting on the detection of distant interval metastases with 18F-FDG PET(/CT) in patients with esophageal cancer who received neoadjuvant therapy and both baseline staging and restaging after neoadjuvant therapy with 18F-FDG PET(/CT) imaging.
The analysis included diagnostic studies describing the accuracy of cervical ultrasonography and integrated F-FDG PET/CT or standalone F-FDG PET and CT for detecting cervical lymph node metastases in patients with esophageal cancer.
This prospective study included 76 patients with histologically proven esophageal cancer who underwent both DW-MRI and F-FDG PET/CT examinations before treatment.
Relative change in FDG uptake after 14 days of CRT is not associated with DFS in patients with esophageal cancer undergoing neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery.
Texture analysis of <sup>18</sup>F-FDG PET/CT to predict tumour response and prognosis of patients with esophageal cancer treated by chemoradiotherapy.