title: [11C-choline PET/CT in the diagnosis of prostate cancer -- Hungarian experience].
abstract: 11C-choline has been used in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with prostate cancer for years. Choline PET/CT has been available in human care since March, 2014 in our country. Unfortunately this examination has not been reimbursed by the National Health Insurance so far. We retrospectively analysed and assessed the results of 40 patients who underwent 11C-choline PET/CT on the basis of previous literature. As our study group was heterogeneous statistical analysis was not performed.
authors.affiliation: ScanoMed Nukleáris Medicina Oktató és Kutató Kft., Debrecen, Hungary. garai.ildiko@scanomed.hu.
authors.forename: Ildikó
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Garai
authors.affiliation: Nukleáris Medicina Intézet, Debreceni Egyetem, Debrecen, Hungary.
authors.forename: Bence
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Farkas
authors.affiliation: ScanoMed Nukleáris Medicina Oktató és Kutató Kft., Debrecen, Hungary. garai.ildiko@scanomed.hu.
authors.forename: Attila
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oszlánszki
authors.affiliation: Urológiai Klinika, Debreceni Egyetem, Debrecen, Hungary.
authors.forename: Csaba
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Berczi
authors.affiliation: Urológiai Klinika, Debreceni Egyetem, Debrecen, Hungary.
authors.forename: Tibor
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Flaskó
authors.affiliation: Nukleáris Medicina Intézet, Debreceni Egyetem, Debrecen, Hungary.
authors.forename: László
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Galuska
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes / Q000378:metabolism; D002794:Choline / Q000378:metabolism; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000379:methods; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D002794:Choline