Increased F-18 FDG uptake in the right auricle of a displaced heart: Potential cause of a false-positive pathologic mediastinal node

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 97-99

  Kim, Susanne ^a   Ding, You Guang ^a   Krynyckyi, Borys R ^a   MacHac, Josef ^a   Kim, Chun K ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorodeoxyglucose; Normal variants; Right atrial appendage; Right auricle

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 12244289918     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200502000-00005     Document Type: Article

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