Radionuclide imaging metabolic activity of brown adipose tissue in a patient with pheochromocytoma

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 601-603

  Fukuchi, Kazuki ^a   Tatsumi, M ^b   Ishida, Y ^a   Oku, N ^c   Hatazawa, J ^c   Wahl, R L ^b  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fat; Pheochromocytoma; Positron emission tomography (PET); Radionuclide imaging

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; CATECHOLAMINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; NORADRENALIN; TRACER;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 10844222492     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-830407     Document Type: Article

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