Sentence examples for synchronous tumours from inspiring English sources

Eight patients had synchronous tumours.

Cases of synchronous tumours were excluded from the study.

Immunohistochemistry and TP53 gene mutation analyses may be used to ascertain the clonality of synchronous tumours.

In patients with synchronous tumours, the most advanced tumour was used for the analysis.

In all, 31 of the 45 patients had metachronous tumours and 14 patients had synchronous tumours.

Patients with synchronous tumours at diagnosis were excluded from the study.

FDG-PET/CT has a lower specificity than sensitivity and more useful for detecting distant metastases and synchronous tumour than lymphnode metastasis [ 1, 17, 18].

Subsequently, the relative difference between the SUV of the index tumour and the SUV of the synchronous tumour (the second primary tumour or metastatic lesion) was assessed (∆SUV) and expressed in percentages of the highest SUV.

The role of FDG-PET/CT in staging is under investigation, it has a lower specificity than sensitivity and is more useful for staging distant metastases and synchronous tumour than lymphnode metastasis [ 1, 17, 18].

A better understanding of carcinogenesis in these two distinct tumour types, and recognition that multiple synchronous primary tumours – especially adenocarcinoma – are not uncommon, has modified this view.

Nine patients had synchronous metastatic tumours at the time of resection of primary tumours and the other 28 patients had metachronous metastasis after resection of the primary tumours.