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SUBMITTER: Nicolau UR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6095513 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nicolau Ulisses Ribaldo UR de Jesus Victor Hugo Fonseca VHF Lima Eduardo Nóbrega Pereira ENP Alves Marclesson Santos MS de Oliveira Thiago Bueno TB Andrade Louise De Brot LB Silva Virgilio Souza VS Bes Paula Cacciatore PC de Paiva Tadeu Ferreira TF Calsavara Vinicius Fernando VF Guimarães Andrea Paiva Gadelha APG Cezana Loureno L Barbosa Paula Nicole Vieira Pinto PNVP Porto Gislaine Cristina Lopes Machado GCLM Pellizzon Antônio Cássio Assis ACA de Carvalho Genival Barbosa GB Kowalski Luiz Paulo LP
PloS one 20180816 8
<h4>Objective</h4>The objective of this study was to assess the clinical value of 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) after the first cycle of induction chemotherapy (IC) in locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (LASCCHN).<h4>Methods and findings</h4>A prospective, single-arm, single center study was performed, with patients enrolled between February 2010 and July 2013.Patients (n = 49) with stage III/IVA-B LASCCHN who u ...[more]