The usefulness of fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography as a preoperative diagnostic tool for thymic epithelial tumors
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Thymic epithelial tumors
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000040365
- Lead Sponsor
- Department of Oncology, Immunology and Surgery, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up continuing
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 51
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
None.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The usefulness of 18F-fluorodeoxy glucose-positron emission tomography (18F-FDG PET) for predicting the malignant grade in TETs.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The assessment of correlation between the SUVmax and TETs sizes.