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Giorgio Treglia, Luca Giovanella (Eds): Evidence-Based Positron Emission Tomography: Summary of Recent Meta-Analyses on PET Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-47701-4. OPEN ACCESS Luigi Mansi 1
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Positron emission tomography (PET), actually intended only as a hybrid technique and mainly as PET/computed tomography (PET/CT), being less diffuse PET/magnetic resonance (PET/MR), is a consolidated procedure, having a central role in oncology. Nevertheless, its clinical position continues to be negatively affected by the comparison with traditional morphostructural techniques, i.e., CT or MR standalone, advantaged by a wider diffusion and a more consolidated appreciation. It means that, although PET/CT is widely used in the clinical practice and its superiority for many clinical indications with respect to traditional techniques has already been demonstrated, its presence as a primary tool in diagnostic and therapeutic international protocols is still relatively scarce. One of the reasons is the low number of evidence-based articles, such as systematic reviews and meta-analyses, although the presence of an extensive literature on PET. A metaanalysis is a statistical analysis that combines the results of multiple scientific studies answering to the same very precise question, with each individual study reporting measurements that are expected to have some degree of error. The aim then is to use approaches from statistics to derive a pooled estimate closest to the unknown common truth. At my knowledge, there are not too many books which address the topic “Evidence-based Positron Emission Tomography. Summary of Recent Meta-analyses on PET,” in depth and extension, both in the methodological part and in its clinical applications. Therefore, this volume is an editorial gem, with the added value of a free download, being an open-access publication.
* Luigi Mansi [email protected] 1
Interuniversity Research Center for Sustainability (CIRPS), Naples, Italy
The editors are Giorgio Treglia and Luca Giovanella, working at the Clinic of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Imaging Institute of Southern Switzerland, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale Bellinzona, Switzerland. Being both internationally recognized authorities in the field, they recruited authors experts in specific topics, who have been given an editorial mandate that has produced a didactically homogeneous publication, easily understandable even in the more complex methodological aspects. The volume of 142 pages is structured in 6 parts, starting from an introduction and with a widest extension interesting oncology (chapters 3–10). Sections on cardiology, inflammation and infections, neurology, and miscellaneous are also included. Being the scientific background of a meta-analysis based on the rigorous choice of the more appropriate references, the bibliography in each chapter is an added value. More precisely, the following chapters have been discussed: (1) Introduction to Di
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