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Ann Thorac Surg 1995;60:1581-1582
© 1995 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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DR BENEDICT D. T. DALY (Boston, MA):I would like to congratulate Dr Pounds on an excellent presentation and thank Dr Hopkins for sending me the manuscript in advance. The data presented here demonstrate that PET imaging is superior to CT: first, in identifying a lesion in the lung as neoplastic; second, in detecting metastatic disease in hilar or mediastinal lymph nodes; and, finally, in identifying the sites of distant metastases, specifically liver, lung, adrenal, soft tissue, and bone. Bone scans, perhaps, according to the data in the paper, are as sensitive as PET scans in identifying sites of skeletal metastases, but have a distinct false-positive rate, requiring additional imaging for clarification. Valk and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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