Fluorine-18 DOPA PET imaging of paraganglioma syndrome

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-41

  Brink, Ingo ^a,c   Schaefer, Oliver ^a   Walz, Martin ^b   Neumann, Hartmut P H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b KLINIKEN ESSEN MITTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluorine 18 DOPA PET; Paraganglioma; Pheochromocytoma; SDHD mutation

Indexed keywords

6 FLUORODOPA F 18; NORADRENALIN; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CASE REPORT; CHEMODECTOMA; GENE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PARAGANGLIOMA; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; RETROPERITONEAL CANCER; SCHOOL CHILD; SDHD GENE;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; CHILD; DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; PARAGANGLIOMA; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; SYNDROME;

EID: 29444441744     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000191577.39458.a0     Document Type: Article

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