Benefit of PET in patients with head and neck tumors cannot be assessed, study suggests
Friday, April 29, 2011 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
The benefit and harm of positron emission tomography (PET) in patients with head and neck tumors, applied alone or in combination with computed tomography (CT), cannot currently be reliably assessed, as suitable studies are lacking.
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