Intracardiac extension of lung cancer demonstrated on PET scanning

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 68-70

  Gates, Gary F ^a,c   Aronsky, Amy ^b   Ozgur, Hasan ^b  

^a PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b St John Medical Center   (United States)

^c St John Medical Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac tumors; FDG; Lung cancer; PET scanning

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACARDIAC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY VEIN; STROKE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; SCINTISCANNING;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 33646087926     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000197051.74922.02     Document Type: Article

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