Pretreatment tumor-related leukocytosis misleads positron emission tomography-computed tomography during lymph node staging in gynecological malignancies
oleh: Seiji Mabuchi, Naoko Komura, Tomoyuki Sasano, Kotaro Shimura, Eriko Yokoi, Katsumi Kozasa, Hiromasa Kuroda, Ryoko Takahashi, Mahiru Kawano, Yuri Matsumoto, Hiroki Kato, Jun Hatazawa, Tadashi Kimura
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2020-03-01 |
Deskripsi
Modern imaging techniques can detect cancer cells in the lymph nodes of cancer patients. In this study, the authors show that tumour related leukocytosis, a phenomenon where leukocytes are increased in number, can lead to the false positive detection of cancer cells in lymph nodes.