Staging should include chest and abdominal computed tomography (CT) together with positron emission tomography (PET)/CT.
Once the diagnosis of prostate sarcoma has been made, staging should include CT imaging of the chest and liver to look for metastatic spread to these sites.
Staging investigations should include multi-slice/spiral CT scan of thorax and abdomen (neck and pelvis optional) with IV and oral contrast/water, maximum slice width 5 mm, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), PET/CT scan (recommended but not essential) and laparoscopy (where clinically indicated – usually for lower third and GOJ tumours).
Therefore, decisions with regard to adjuvant chemotherapy, especially in the early stage of disease, should include tumour islet macrophage counts.
In addition, these variables may not play a role at such an early stage; thus, future studies should include older offspring stage too.
Because the adrenal glands are one of the most common sites for extrathoracic metastases, CT scans used in staging lung cancer should include the upper abdomen.
Pre-operative staging in surgical candidates should include CT of thorax, abdomen and pelvis and bone scintigraphy.
It also suggests that staging of metastatic melanoma should include this parameter, so refining Breslow thickness [ 20].
Pre-operative staging in surgical candidates should include CT of thorax, abdomen and pelvis and a bone scan.
Providing that construction operations form a multifaceted set of activities, and each construction project is unique in terms of climatic conditions, natural environments and geographic coordinates, the front-end engineering stage of an object lifecycle should include simulation of the potential emergency situations apart from building computer models of a target construction object.
