Chest tube insertion as a potential source of false-positive FDG-positron emission tomographic results

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 285-286

  Zhuang, Hongming ^a   Cunnane, Mary E ^a   Ghesani, Nasrin V ^a   Mozley, P David ^a   Alavi, Abass ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest Tube; Fluorodeoxyglucose; Positron Emission Tomography

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TUBE;

ADULT; CHEST TUBES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0036126194     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200204000-00010     Document Type: Article

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