Population
19 patients with 43 resected lung metastases, mean age 61, 10 male.
Design
Cohort, Pathologist performing vessel counting was blinded to SUV data
Authors
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FDG-PET should not guide angiogenesis assessment in lung metastases; leaves open whether glucose uptake and vascular density represent independent pathways.
Glucose uptake and angiogenesis appear to be independent biological features in lung metastases, suggesting that FDG-PET scan cannot reliably predict tumour angiogenic patterns.
Veronesi et al. (2002) studied this question.
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