Positron emission tomography staging of pleural deposits following Monaldi's procedure: An accurate reflection or a false staging?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 260-261

  Al Sarraf, Nael ^a   Doddakula, Kishore ^a   Wedde, Trudy ^a   Young, Vincent ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Monaldi; Non small cell lung cancer; Positron emission tomography; Talc

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; LUNG BULLA; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DRAINAGE; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PLEURA; PLEURODESIS; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TALC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247119755     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2006.141598     Document Type: Article

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