FDG-PET imaging in Merkel cell carcinoma - Value of head-to-toe scan

Nuclear Medicine Review

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 135-136

  Golan, Haim ^a,b   Volkov, Olga ^a,b   Linchinsky, Olga ^a,b   Melloul, Moshe ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

18 FDG PET; Head to toe scan; Merkel cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; TRACER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; METASTASIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TONSIL CANCER; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 30944441516     PISSN: 15069680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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