The value of quantifying F-FDG uptake in thyroid nodules found incidentally on whole-body PET-CT

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 373-381

  Bogsrud, Trond V ^a   Karantanis, Dimitrios ^a   Nathan, Mark A ^a   Mullan, Brian P ^a   Wiseman, Gregory A ^b   Collins, Douglas A ^b   Kasperbauer, Jan L ^b   Strome, Scott E ^b   Reading, Carl C ^a   Hay, Ian D ^a   Lowe, Val J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Standard uptake value (SUV) focal thyroid FDG uptake; Thyroid nodules

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METASTASIS; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND; WHOLE BODY CT; WHOLE BODY PET;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; THYROID NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 34147169551     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e3280964eae     Document Type: Article

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