Objective(s): We aim to investigate the clinical impact of 18F-FDG PET/CT in managing patients with gynecological malignancies and pelvic or extrapelvic lymph nodes that are of equivocal significance on conventional imaging.Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 18F-FDG PET/CT scans of patients with gynecologic tumors who were referred to King Hussein Cancer Center from January 2010 to August 20...

If clinical quality assurance and cost-effectiveness of diagnostic testing are to be measured, some sort of measurement of the clinical value of a test result is needed. The predictive value of a test result is not a real measure of its clinical value, and, particularly, when used in the later stages of a diagnostic workup, it can be misleading. Using the same data that go into a calculation of...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: computed tomography (ct) scan without contrast is the modality of choice for diagnosis of stroke. however, routine brain ct scan, with linear processing has some limitations in early diagnosis of ischemic stroke. the aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the sensitivity and specificity of processed ct i...