FDG-PET in the staging work-up of patients with suspected intracranial metastatic tumors

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 202-206

  Gupta, Naresh C ^a,b   Nicholson, Peter ^a   Bloomfield, Stephen M ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033497569     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199908000-00010     Document Type: Article

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