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Fig. 1 | BMC Medical Imaging

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From: Impact of 18F-FDG PET/CT, CT and EBUS/TBNA on preoperative mediastinal nodal staging of NSCLC

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True positive FDG-PET/CT and true positive EBUS/TBNA. A case of moderately differentiated lung adenocarcinoma in the right lung. Axial CT showed prominent pretracheal lymph node. Axial FDG-PET and FDG-PET/CT showed hypermetabolic (SUVmax: 3.8) pretracheal lymph node (arrow) and suggested a metastases. EBUS/TBNA from this lymph node turned positive for metastases that was confirmed later by lymph node dissection

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