Image in endocrinology: Testosterone-secreting ovarian tumor localized with (fluorine-18)-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 738-739

  Mattsson, Cecilia ^a   Stanhope, C Robert ^c   Sam, Susan ^b   Young Jr , William F ^c  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLITORIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG UPTAKE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIRSUTISM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; OVARY TUMOR; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HIRSUTISM; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARIECTOMY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPES; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33644827769     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2005-2270     Document Type: Article

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