Publications by authors named "Albert A Driedger"
Background. Whether or not the familial form of papillary thyroid carcinoma is more aggressive than the sporadic form of the disease remains controversial. Methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) require careful preoperative staging to define resectability for potential cure. Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography (FDG PET-CT) is widely used to stage NSCLC. If the mediastinum is positive on PET-CT examination, some practitioners conclude that the patient is inoperable and refer the patient for nonsurgical treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Among patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), preoperative imaging tests are important in defining surgical candidates.
Objective: To assess whether whole-body positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET-CT) plus cranial imaging correctly upstages cancer in more patients with NSCLC than does conventional staging plus cranial imaging.
Design: Randomized clinical trial with recruitment from June 2004 to August 2007.
Unlabelled: Fluorine-18 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) detects recurrence of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) in thyroidectomized patients with elevated thyroglobulin (Tg) levels and negative (131)I-whole-body scans. This paper describes the utility of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)-stimulated fused FDG-PET/computed tomography (CT) scanning on our first 15 patients of this population.
Methods: Patients were prepared for PET/CT imaging with thyroid hormone withdrawal (n = 7) or recombinant human TSH (n = 8).