2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose positron emission tomography uptake in a giant adrenal myelolipoma

Molecular Imaging and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 355-358

  Ludwig, Vinicius ^a   Rice, Michael H ^a   Martin, William H ^a   Kelley, Mark C ^a   Delbeke, Dominique ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal myelolipoma; FDG; Whole body PET

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MYELOLIPOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR NECROSIS;

EID: 0036764752     PISSN: 15361632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1536-1632(02)00018-5     Document Type: Article

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