Metabolic tumor volume provides complementary prognostic information to EUS staging in esophageal and junctional cancer

• Published in: Diseases of the esophagus Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 1 - 8
• Main Authors: Malik, Vinod, Johnston, Ciaran, O’Toole, Dermot, Lucey, Julie, O’Farrell, Naoimh, Claxton, Zieta, Reynolds, John V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 01.03.2017
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Endosonography - methods; Esophageal Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Esophageal Neoplasms - pathology; Esophagogastric Junction - diagnostic imaging; Esophagogastric Junction - pathology; Esophagoscopy - methods; Female; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; Humans; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Staging; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography - methods; Prognosis; Proportional Hazards Models; Prospective Studies; Radiopharmaceuticals; Regression Analysis; Statistics, Nonparametric; Tumor Burden; Young Adult; esophageal cancer; 18F-FDG PET-CT; endoscopic ultrasound; staging

SUMMARY To determine the correlation between 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) derived esophageal tumor parameters [maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax), metabolic tumor volume (MTV)] and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) derived tumor parameters (T sta...