False-positive uptake of TI-201 by an intracranial inflammatory pseudotumor

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 756-758

  Lorberboym, Mordechai ^a,b   Sacher, Michael ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PTOSIS; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASES; SPHENOID SINUS; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031473561     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199711000-00004     Document Type: Article

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