Integrated CT-PET Imaging of Esophageal Cancer: Unexpected and Unusual Distribution of Distant Organ Metastases

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-29

  Bruzzi, John F ^a   Truong, Mylene T ^a   Macapinlac, Homer ^a   Munden, Reginald F ^a   Erasmus, Jeremy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER STAGING; COLON TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG UPTAKE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MUSCLE METASTASIS; PANCREAS CYST; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; THYROID CANCER; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845741240     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2006.10.004     Document Type: Review

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