The New England Journal of Medicine
e-mail icon  FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |    Advanced Search
Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe
 
Correspondence
PreviousPrevious
Volume 361:1606-1608 October 15, 2009 Number 16
NextNext

Lung-Cancer Staging with PET–CT

Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

 Sign up for free e-toc
 

This Article
-Full Text
- PDF
-PDA Full Text
-Purchase this article

Tools and Services
-Add to Personal Archive
-Add to Citation Manager
-Notify a Friend
-E-mail When Cited
-E-mail When Letters Appear

More Information
-Related Article
by Fischer, B.
-PubMed Citation
To the Editor: In their assessment of the usefulness of combined positron-emission tomography and computed tomography (PET–CT) in the preoperative staging of lung cancer, Fischer et al. (July 2 issue)1 provide no information on the interval between baseline staging and thoracotomy, nor on the use of neoadjuvant therapy. A prolonged delay between PET–CT and surgery may negate the diagnostic value of PET–CT and may be due to coexisting conditions that would themselves have a negative effect on survival. Although the PET–CT scans in the study were read by an experienced radiologist and a nuclear medicine specialist, it is unclear who . . . [Full Text of this Article]



HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  TERMS OF USE  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org

Comments and questions? Please contact us.

The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.