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The Place of FDG PET/CT in Renal Cell Carcinoma: Value and Limitations

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in oncology, September 2016
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Title
The Place of FDG PET/CT in Renal Cell Carcinoma: Value and Limitations
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Frontiers in oncology, September 2016
DOI 10.3389/fonc.2016.00201
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Authors

Yiyan Liu

Abstract

Unlike for most other malignancies, application of FDG PET/CT is limited for renal cell carcinoma (RCC), mainly due to physiological excretion of 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-2-d-glucose (FDG) from the kidneys, which decreases contrast between renal lesions and normal tissue, and may obscure or mask the lesions of the kidneys. Published clinical observations were discordant regarding the role of FDG PET/CT in diagnosing and staging RCC, and FDG PET/CT is not recommended for this purpose based on current national and international guidelines. However, quantitative FDG PET/CT imaging may facilitate the prediction of the degree of tumor differentiation and allows for prognosis of the disease. FDG PET/CT has potency as an imaging biomarker to provide useful information about patient's survival. FDG PET/CT can be effectively used for postoperative surveillance and restaging with high sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy, as early diagnosis of recurrent/metastatic disease can drastically affect therapeutic decision and alter outcome of patients. FDG uptake is helpful for differentiating benign or bland emboli from tumor thrombosis in RCC patients. FDG PET/CT also has higher sensitivity and accuracy when compared with bone scan to detect RCC metastasis to the bone. FDG PET/CT can play a strong clinical role in the management of recurrent and metastatic RCC. In monitoring the efficacy of new target therapy such as tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) treatment for advanced RCC, FDG PET/CT has been increasingly used to assess the therapeutic efficacy, and change in FDG uptake is a strong indicator of biological response to TKI.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 86 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 12 14%
Student > Postgraduate 11 13%
Other 9 10%
Researcher 9 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 8%
Other 14 16%
Unknown 24 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 47 55%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 2%
Chemistry 2 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 1%
Other 4 5%
Unknown 28 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 December 2020.
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#8,534,976
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in oncology
#3,352
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#124,286
of 344,893 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in oncology
#10
of 42 outputs
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