Increased FDG uptake in the right cardiac chambers in a patient with pulmonary emphysema

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 605-606

  Duarte, Paulo S ^a   Zhuang, Hongming ^b   Machado, Cristiano ^a   Aldighieri, Flavia ^a   Martins, Luiz R F ^a   Alonso, Gilberto ^a  

^a Fleury Laboratory   (Brazil)

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

Author keywords

Emphysema; Fluorodeoxyglucose; Positron Emission Tomography; Right Atrium; Right Ventricle

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMPHYSEMA; HEART DISEASE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM RUPTURE; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0036705959     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200208000-00017     Document Type: Article

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