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European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

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01-04-2010 | Editorial Commentary

Amino acid PET and clinical management of glioma patients

Author: Karl Herholz

Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Issue 4/2010

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In this issue, Yamane et al. [11] report a remarkable finding: Use of ¹¹C-methionine PET (MET PET) changed clinical management in 50% of their patients with brain tumours. One wonders whether this imaging technique is so much better than standard diagnostic procedures and whether usual clinical decisions without ¹¹C-methionine PET are so bad. …

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Yamane T, Sakamoto S, Senda M. Clinical impact of 11C-methionine PET on expected management of patients with brain neoplasm. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2010. doi:10.1007/s00259-009-1302-y.PubMed

Title: Amino acid PET and clinical management of glioma patients
Author: Karl Herholz
Publication date: 01-04-2010
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / Issue 4/2010
Print ISSN: 1619-7070
Electronic ISSN: 1619-7089
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-009-1366-8

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