F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT as an imaging tool for staging and restaging cutaneous angiosarcoma of the scalp

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 534-537

  Vasanawala, Minal S ^a   Wang, Yingbing ^b   Quon, Andrew ^a   Gambhir, Sanjiv S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiosarcoma; FDG; Oncology; PET CT; Sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AGED; ANGIOSARCOMA; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG UPTAKE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PERIOSTEUM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCALP ANGIOSARCOMA; SCALP TUMOR; SYMPTOM;

AGED; BIOPSY; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SCALP; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33747593836     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000233073.12599.0a     Document Type: Article

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