Pulmonary suture abscess with false-positive18F- fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission scan mimicking lung cancer recurrence

Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 351-355

  Iwasaki, Teruo ^a   Nakagawa, Katsuhiro ^a   Katsura, Hiroshi ^a   Nakane, Shigeru ^a   Kawahara, Kunimitsu ^b   Fukuda, Haruyuki ^b  

^a OSAKA PREFECTURAL MEDICAL CENTER FOR RESPIRATORY AND ALLERGIC DISEASES   (Japan)

^b OSAKA GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast conserving surgery; Foreign body granuloma; Lung cancer; Positron emission tomography; Pulmonary suture abscess

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; MICROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SUTURES;

EID: 33748945503     PISSN: 13444964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11748-006-0010-9     Document Type: Article

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