Solitary splenic metastasis in a patient with a malignant melanoma diagnosed with F-18-FDG PET scanning

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 582-583

  Van Ufford, Henriette M E Quarles ^a   Zoon, Peter J C ^a   Van Waes, Paul F G M ^a   Van Herk, Gerard ^b   De Klerk, John M H ^b  

^a MEANDER MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ST JANSDAL HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

F 18 FDG PET; Melanoma; PET CT fusion

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SOLITARY SPLEEN METASTASIS; SPLEEN TUMOR; SPLENECTOMY;

AGED; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SCAPULA; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 22644446624     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000171096.41819.67     Document Type: Article

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