The presentation of malignant tumours and pre-malignant lesions incidentally found on PET-CT

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 541-552

  Even Sapir, Einat ^a,b   Lerman, Hedva ^a   Gutman, Mordechai ^b,c   Lievshitz, Gennady ^a   Zuriel, Limor ^a   Polliack, Aaron ^d   Inbar, Moshe ^a,b   Metser, Ur ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

FDG; Malignancy; PET CT; Synchronous

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRECANCER; PREDICTION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; THYROID CANCER; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646419549     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-005-0056-4     Document Type: Article

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