Gallbladder metastasis from malignant melanoma: Diagnosis with FDG PET/CT

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 812-813

  Rehani, Bhavya ^a   Strohmeyer, Pamela ^a   Jacobs, Martin ^a,b   Mantil, Joseph ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KETTERING MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

F 18 FDG PET CT; Gallbladder; Malignant melanoma

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AGED; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33751219539     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000246860.97977.e1     Document Type: Article

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