Controlled prospective study of positron emission tomography using the glucose analogue [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose in the evaluation of pulmonary nodules

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1506-1511

  Prauer H W ^a,b   Weber, W A ^a   Romer W ^a   Treumann, T ^a   Ziegler, S I ^a   Schwaiger, M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG NODULE; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, BRONCHOGENIC; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031786660     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1998.00915.x     Document Type: Article

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