Carcinoid crisis after injection of 6-18F- fluorodihydroxyphenylalanine in a patient with metastatic carcinoid

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1240-1243

  Koopmans, Klaas P ^a   Brouwers, Adrienne H ^a   De Hooge, Marjolijn N ^a   Van Der Horst Schrivers, Anouk N ^a   Kema, Ido P ^a   Wolffenbuttel, Bruce H ^a   De Vries, Elisabeth G ^a   Jager, Pieter L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

18F DOPA; Carcinoid crisis; Carcinoid syndrome; Neuroendocrine tumors

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; 6 FLUORODIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE F 18; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CLEMASTINE; CLEMASTINE FUMARATE; OCTREOTIDE; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DOPA; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FLUORODOPA F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BOLUS INJECTION; CARCINOID; CARCINOID CRISIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FLUSHING; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; NAUSEA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SIDE EFFECT; URINE LEVEL; VOMITING; CARCINOID SYNDROME; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; SCINTISCANNING;

DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALIGNANT CARCINOID SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; OCTREOTIDE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 23844528540     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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