Inflammatory F-18 FDG uptake secondary to ruptured breast prosthesis

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 227-228

  Bhargava, Peeyush ^a,b   Glass, Elizabeth ^a   Ghesani, Munir ^a  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifact; Breast; PET; Prosthesis

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST PROSTHESIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED;

BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748111641     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000204490.25782.f8     Document Type: Article

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