Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

, Volume 390, Issue 2, pp 180–181 | Cite as

Reply to the comments by Dr Junginger and Dr Kneist regarding our publication “Impact of FDG-PET for staging of oesophageal cancer”

Letter to the Editor
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Lymph Node Metastasis Distant Metastasis False Positive Result Economic Burden Cervical Lymph Node 
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References

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    Imdahl A, Hentschel M, Kleinmaier M, Hopt UT, Brink I (2004) Impact of FDG-PET for staging of oesophageal cancer. Langenbecks Arch Surg 389:293–298CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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    van Westreenen HL, Westerterp M, Bossuyt PMM, Pruim J, Sloof GW, van Lanschot JJB, Groen H, Plukker JTM (2004) Systematic review of the staging performance of 18F-fluordeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in esophageal cancer. J Clin Oncol 22:3805–3812CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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    Junginger T, Kneist W, Schreckenberger M, et al. (2003) Positronen-Emissions-Tomographie zum präoperativen Staging des Ösophaguskarzinoms. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 127:1935–1941CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Departments of General and Visceral Surgery and Nuclear MedicineUniversity Hospital of FreiburgFreiburgGermany

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