Potential role of Ga-DOTATOC PET/CT in screening for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour in patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease.

Purpose: Neuroendocrine tumours of the pancreas (pNET) are observed in 8 - 17 % of patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease (vHLD), and 11 - 20 % of these patients develop metastatic disease. MRI and CT have a very high resolution; however, their sensitivity and specificity for the detection of pNET...

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Publicado en:European Journal of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging Vol. 43; no. 11; pp. 2014 - 2021
Autores principales: Prasad, Vikas, Tiling, Nikolaus, Denecke, Timm, Brenner, Winfried, Plöckinger, Ursula
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Oct2016
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