Nuclear Medicine Technology Research Papers/Topics

Outcomes Of Patients Undergoing Lung Resection For Drug-Resistant TB And The Prognostic Significance Of Pre-Operative Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) In Predicting T

ABSTRACT Background: Even with newer and repurposed anti-TB drugs almost a third of patients with XDR-TB have unfavourable outcomes. In patients with localised disease and adequate pulmonary reserve, surgery is an important adjunctive treatment. However, there are no outcome data from TB endemic countries, and the prognostic significance of pre-operative PET-CT findings remains unknown. Objectives: To report outcomes for resectional surgery in our setting, and to study whether PET acti...