Publications by authors named "Soledad Alvarez Ruiz"
Current guidelines do not systematically recommend 18F-FDG PET/CT for breast cancer staging; and the recommendations and level of evidence supporting its use in different groups of patients vary among guidelines. This review summarizes the evidence about the role of 18F-FDG PET/CT in breast cancer staging and the therapeutic and prognostic impact accumulated in the last decade. Other related aspects, such as the association of metabolic information with biology and prognosis are considered and evidence-based recommendations for the use of 18F-FDG PET/CT in breast cancer staging are offered.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFF-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the diagnosis of malignancy in patients with paraneoplastic neurological syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Ana María García Vicente Roberto C Delgado-Bolton Mariano Amo-Salas Jesús López-Fidalgo Ana Paula Caresia Aróztegui
Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging
August 2017
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to evaluate how effective FDG PET scans are for detecting hidden cancers in patients with paraneoplastic neurological syndrome (PNS).
- A systematic review included 16 studies with 793 patients, revealing high sensitivity (0.87) and specificity (0.86) for diagnosing malignancy using FDG PET.
- The research indicates that FDG PET is a reliable method for identifying cancer in PNS patients, but variability in individual studies may affect the overall reliability of some results.