Sentence examples for staging purposes from inspiring English sources

Currently no standardized blood test exists for breast cancer screening or staging purposes.

Evaluating the size of multifocal breast cancer for staging purposes is problematic.

US plays a limited role in the diagnosis, but CT and MRI may be used for staging purposes.

As with the other haematological malignancies, PET is useful for staging purposes and assessment of treatment response.

The 'golden standard' for staging purposes is CT, but occult metastasis cannot be detected with this method.

For staging purposes, physicians and radiologists should consider the currently used Revised International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) Staging System [9, 10, 11].

Pre-therapeutic [18F]FDG PET for staging purpose was performed on a Sensation 64 Biograph PET/CT scanner (Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) with injected activity of 340 MBq (delay 60 min p.i).

A right para-aortic lymph node dissection was carried out routinely for staging purpose in pancreatic head tumours and followed by pancreaticoduodenectomy in case no metastatic lymph nodes were found at frozen section pathology.

When only mucin pools are found on gross examination, the entire suspicious zone must be sampled for accurate staging purpose, as residual viable tumour cells can be present upon microscopic examination in most cases [ 7].

None of the patients had asymptomatic PE confirmed by CT scan performed for staging purpose, neither did the patients included in our study show any signs of a DVT event, as defined by swelling, tender or pain of the lower limbs in the weeks before inclusion in the study.

The machine gun fire is yet another industry trick: While real, the gun was modified for stage purposes to make it safe and inoperable for firing live rounds it fires "half load" blanks in the video, which are half as loud as the real thing.