United States false-positive parathyroid scan leading to sternotomy: Incidental detection of a thymoma by c-11 methionine positron emission tomography

Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 116-119

  Adler, Lee P ^a   Akhrass, Rami ^a   Ma, Debora ^a   Bloom, Allen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PARATHYROID SCINTISCANNING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; THYMOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; SCINTISCANNING; STERNUM;

CARBON; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; METHIONINE;

AGED; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; MALE; METHIONINE; STERNUM; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031181086     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6060(97)90274-9     Document Type: Article

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