From the Department of Surgery, * Division of Nuclear Medicine,t Department ... University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, and Brown ...
ANNALS OF SURGERY Vol. 219, No. 5, 508-516 © 1994 J. B. Lippincott Company
Prediction of Surgical Resectability in Patients with Hepatic Colorectal Metastases Stephen B. Vogel, M.D.,* Walter E. Drane, M.D.,t Pablo R. Ros, M.D.,t Scott R. Kerns, M.D.,4 and Kirby I. Bland, M.D.§ From the Department of Surgery, * Division of Nuclear Medicine,t Department of Radiology,t University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, and Brown University School of Medicine,§ Providence, Rhode Island
Objective To evaluate the efficacy of two distinct imaging techniques to predict, before operation, unresectability compared with standard computed tomographic scan (CT).
Summary Background Accurate preoperative identification of the number, size, and location of hepatic lesions is crucial in planning hepatic resection for colorectal hepatic metastases. Although infusion-enhanced CT is the standard, its limitations are the imaging of relatively isodense and/or small (
