Focal F-18 FDG uptake mimicking malignant gastric localizations disappearing after water ingestion on PET/CT images

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 835-837

  Imperiale, Alessio ^a   Cimarelli, Sébastien ^a   Sellem, Dorra Ben ^a   Blondet, Cyrille ^a   Contantinesco, André ^a  

^a HÔPITAL DE HAUTEPIERRE   (France)

Author keywords

F 18 FDG gastric uptake; FDG pitfalls; PET CT imaging

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG UPTAKE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH WALL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; STOMACH; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 33751257749     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000246819.37532.e2     Document Type: Article

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