Fusion Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography Demonstration of Epidural Metastases

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-40

  Jadvar, Hossein ^a   Cham, Daniel ^a   Gamie, Sherief ^a   Henderson, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Epidural; FDG; Metastasis; PET

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTECTOMY; EVALUATION; FUSION POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERMETABOLISM; ILIAC NODE; LATISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; NEPHRECTOMY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERINEURIUM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROPERITONEUM; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORACIC SPINE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; EPIDURAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1242296314     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000102764.90638.76     Document Type: Article

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