Background/aims: To investigate the clinicopathological parameters influencing assessment of FDG SPECT in gastric cancer.
Methodology: The frames of FDG SPECT and clinical data of 105 patients with gastric cancer were collected. The univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to assess the relationship between the visual assessment, SUV(max) and clinicopathological parameters.
Results: There were statistically significant in tumor size and pT stage between the positive and negative group (p < 0.01), while there was no statistically significant in gender, age, tumor localization, pN stage, histological type, adenocarcinoma differentiation (p > 0.05). Tumor size and pT stage were independent factors associated with visual assessment at multivariate analyses (p < 0.05). SUV(max) was positively correlated with age, tumor size and pT stage, respectively (p < 0.01). There was no statistically significant of SUV(max) in gender, tumor localization, pN stage, histological type, adenocarcinoma differentiation (p > 0.05). Age, tumor size and pT stage were independent factors related to SUV(max) (p < 0.05).
Conclusions: Tumor size and depth of invasion were clinicopathological parameters influencing FDG SPECT assessment in gastric cancer independently. The relationship between tumor size, depth of invasion, expression of GLUT-1 and FDG imaging should be determined by further research.
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Surgery
January 2025
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy; Department of Hepatobiliary & General Surgery, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy. Electronic address:
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Genetics
January 2025
Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, 661 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1M1.
The Drosophila TRIM-NHL RNA-binding protein (RBP), MEI-P26, has previously been shown to suppress tumor formation in the germline. Here we show that, in the Drosophila larval central brain, cell-type specific expression of MEI-P26 plays a vital role in regulating neural development. MEI-P26 and another TRIM-NHL RBP, Brain tumor (BRAT), have distinct expression patterns in Type I neuroblast (NB) lineages: While both proteins are expressed in NBs, BRAT is expressed in ganglion mother cells (GMCs) but not neurons whereas MEI-P26 is expressed in neurons but not GMCs.
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January 2025
Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, US.
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January 2025
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
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