Role of gastric distention with additional water in differentiating locally advanced gastric carcinomas from physiological uptake in the stomach on 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose PET.
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PMID: 19352209
Clinical Trial.
CONCLUSION: Gastric distention as a result of patients drinking a glass of water is a simple and noninvasive method for improving the diagnostic accuracy of FDG-PET in patients with locally advanced gastric carcinoma....
CONCLUSION: Gastric distention as a result of patients drinking a glass of water is a simple and noninvasive method for improving the diagno …