Diagnostic value of 18F-FDG positron emission tomography for detection and treatment control of malignant germ cell tumors.

Introduction: The role of positron emission tomography (PET) with 2-[18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose ([18F]FDG) is currently under evaluation in urologic oncology. The aim of the present study was to investigate the use of [18F]FDG positron emission tomography ([18F]FDG-PET) in the detection and treatment control of malignant germ cell tumors compared to computed tomography (CT).

Materials And Methods: Thirty-two PET studies and CT scans were carried out in 23 patients with histologically proven germ cell tumors (10 seminomas, 12 non-seminomatous germ cell tumors (NSGCT), 1 unclassified serologic recurrent disease) Lugano stage I-III.

[Aneurysms of the iliac artery in fibromuscular dysplasia as differential diagnostic consideration in acute lower abdominal pain].

A 48 year old woman was admitted to our department with sudden onset of pain in the left lower abdominal quadrant and the initial diagnosis of diverticulitis or left sided adnexitis was made. On physical examination she was found to have pain and localized peritonism in the left lower abdominal quadrant. Ischemic signs in the same sided lower limb could not be observed.

Prognostic relevance of the intrinsic growth deceleration of the first passage xenografts of human renal cell carcinomas.

Background: Although successful xenotransplantation of human tumors in nude mice highly predicts prognosis, little is known regarding the biologic background of this correlation. In this study, the relationship between the macroscopic growth pattern of first-generation xenografts of human renal cell carcinomas in nude mice and prognosis was studied.

Methods: Macroscopic growth patterns of the first-generation xenografts of locally confined renal cell carcinomas were analyzed according to the best-fit Gompertz recursion formulas.

Significance of conventional and new prognostic factors for locally confined renal cell carcinoma.

Background: The prognosis of patients with locally confined renal cell carcinoma is variable. To improve the prognostic knowledge and select patients at high risk, additional prognostic parameters are needed.

Methods: The significance with respect to survival and tumor recurrence of "classic" and "new" prognostic parameters has been examined by following 41 patients with locally confined renal cell carcinoma after nephrectomy (mean follow-up, 5.