Pulmonary Meningioma False-Positive Positron Emission Tomography for Malignant Pulmonary Nodules

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 701-704

  Cura, Marco ^a   Smoak, William ^a   Dala, Raymund ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NODULE; MENINGIOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSAMMOMATOUS MENINGIOMA; RADIODIAGNOSIS; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG COIN LESION; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

BRAIN; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036778189     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200210000-00003     Document Type: Article

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