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However, traditional diagnosis methods, such as barium meal examination, X-ray scanning, and CT, are invasive to the human body.
Other cases were diagnosed by gastroscopy or X-ray barium meal examination without surgical treatment.
There is much less inconvenience for screenees with FDG-PET than is seen after endoscopy or barium meal examination, which are often accompanied by discomfort during examination, side effects of antispasmodic agents, or constipation after examination.
F-2-deoxy-2-fluoro-glucose Positron Emission Tomography is more expensive than the other two procedures (85 000 Japanese yen or 772 US$ for FDG-PET, 12 680 yen or 115 US$ for endoscopy in our screening program, and about 82 US$ for barium meal examination).
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Efficacy has been evaluated only for barium meal examinations in Japan by case control studies (Oshima et al, 1986; Fukao et al, 1995; Mizoue et al, 2003).
Of the five fluids examined, isotonic glucose appeared to be the drink least disturbing to EGG, so osmolality and its interplay with chemical composition/energy density must be taken into account when choosing a test meal for an EGG examination [ 65].
24-hour CV were calculated using two determinations for PPG (2 hour post –lunch and –dinner glucose levels taken two times a week and the PPG following the standard meal during the examination.
For the subjects participating in the tolerance test only, the test meal started directly after the clinical examination at T0.
The source of the infection was most likely the meals served in the restaurant, but a bacteriological examination of the meal or of the ingredients used to prepare the meal was not possible because none of the food was preserved for analysis.
During this visit, three experimental protocols will be performed simultaneously: (1) a C-labelled mixed triglyceride (C-MTG) breath test (pancreatic digestive function), (2) a meal-stimulated gallbladder ultrasound examination (gallbladder emptying rate) and (3) an acetaminophen absorption kinetic test (gastric emptying rate).
If necessary, chest X-ray or CT examination and barium meal radiography were used to evaluate radiation pneumonitis and esophagitis.
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