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.
Role of intravoxel incoherent motion parameters in gastro-esophageal cancer: relationship with 18F-FDG-PET, CT perfusion and MR perfusion imaging parameters.
Patients with biopsy-proven oesophageal carcinoma underwent FDG PET/CT with evaluation of the standardized uptake value (SUV) before any treatment and during CRT after 20 Gy.
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.
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.
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.
Increased evidence for the prognostic value of FDG uptake on late-treatment PET in non-tumour-affected oesophagus in irradiated patients with oesophageal carcinoma.
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.
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).
This prospective study included 76 patients with histologically proven esophageal cancer who underwent both DW-MRI and F-FDG PET/CT examinations before treatment.
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 study sought to evaluate the effect of fasting time prior to 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) on myocardial accumulation of FDG in patients receiving radiotherapy for esophageal carcinoma, and the spatial relationship between the irradiated dose and myocardial accumulation of FDG.
Intratreatment Response Assessment With 18F-FDG PET: Correlation of Semiquantitative PET Features With Pathologic Response of Esophageal Cancer to Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy.