Incidental focal thyroid uptake on FDG positron emission tomographic scans may represent a second primary tumor

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 193-197

  Dario Ramos, Celso ^a,b   Chisin, Roland ^a,c   D Yeung, Henry W ^a   Larson, Steve M ^a   Macapinlac, Homer A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fluorine 18; Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography; Fluorodeoxyglucose Thyroid Uptake; Standardized Uptake Value; Thyroid Carcinoma

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; SECOND CANCER; STANDARD; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; WHOLE BODY TOMOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0035109420     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200103000-00002     Document Type: Article

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