Lymphadenopathy resulting from acute hepatitis C infection mimicking metastatic breast carcinoma on FDG PET/CT

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 379-381

  Jacene, Heather A ^a   Stearns, Vered ^a   Wahl, Richard L ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; FDG; Hepatitis C; Infection; PET; Positron

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY;

ABDOMEN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SPLEEN; TAMOXIFEN; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748162569     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000222675.10765.14     Document Type: Article

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