Incidental PET/CT detection of thyroid and breast cancer during recurrence of colorectal carcinoma

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-63

  Nguyen, Ba D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Colorectal cancer; Incidental findings; Positron emission tomography; Synchronous malignancy; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THYROID CANCER;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECURRENCE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33847665625     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000249546.40835.fb     Document Type: Article

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