radiometabolic en · ADJ
Etymology
From radio- + metabolic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Relating to radiometabolism.
Because a certain or definitive diagnosis may not be easily obtained, radiometabolic evaluation represents a sort of noninvasive biopsy trying to correlate as accurately as possible the uptake pattern of pNETs […] with the histologic types.
2014, Pier Luigi Filosso, Clinical Management of Neuroendocrine Tumors of the Lung: