Pretreatment tumor-related leukocytosis misleads positron emission tomography-computed tomography during lymph node staging in gynecological malignancies

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.

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Auteurs principaux: 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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Langue:EN
Publié: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/b8525580108c49c3872c6765a3364aec
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