F-18 FDG PET demonstration of a thyroid metastasis in a patient with colon cancer

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 361-362

  Iguchi, Toshihiro ^a   Matsuoka, Junji ^a   Sato, Shuhei ^a   Okumura, Yoshihiro ^b   Omori, Masako ^a   Mifune, Hirofumi ^a   Akaki, Shiro ^a   Kanazawa, Susumu ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA KYOKUTO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; FDG PET; Thyroid metastasis

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG UPTAKE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER; LUNG; LYMPH NODE; MALE; METASTASIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID METASTASIS;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247474709     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000259625.74256.01     Document Type: Article

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