Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography integrated with computed tomography in carcinoma of the cervix: Its impact on accurate staging and the predictive role of its metabolic parameters

• Ismaheel O. Lawal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4273-040X

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• Thabo Lengana,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Charl Janse van Rensburg,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biostatistics Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Florette Reyneke,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Gbenga O. Popoola,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria

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• Alfred O. Ankrah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center, Groningen, The Netherlands

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• Mike M. Sathekge

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mike.sathekge@up.ac.za

  Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2806-0625

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