Positron emission tomography for initial staging of esophageal cancer among medicare beneficiaries

BACKGROUND: The role of positron emission tomography (PET) in the initial staging of esophageal cancer is to detect occult metastases, but its ability to do so has not been evaluated at the population-level. In 2001, Medicare approved reimbursement of PET for esophageal cancer staging. We hypothesiz...

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Vydáno v:J Gastrointest Oncol
Hlavní autoři: Simianu, Vlad V., Varghese, Thomas K., Flanagan, Meghan R., Flum, David R., Shankaran, Veena, Oelschlager, Brant K., Mulligan, Michael S., Wood, Douglas E., Pellegrini, Carlos A., Farjah, Farhood
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: AME Publishing Company 2016
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On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4880761/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27284472
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.21037/jgo.2015.10.03
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