'Straight Line' Sign of Diffuse Peritoneal Carcinomatosis on Sagittal FDG Positron Emission Tomographic Images

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 735-736

  Lin, Eugene C ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

F 18 Fluorodeoxyglucose; Peritoneal Carcinomatosis; Positron Emission Tomography

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARCINOMATOUS PERITONITIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROPERITONEUM; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE CANCER; PERITONEUM TUMOR; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0036776925     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200210000-00014     Document Type: Article

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