Avid FDG uptake in the right ventricle coupled with enhanced intercostal muscle hypermetabolism in pneumoconiosis

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 407-408

  Basu, Sandip ^a   Alavi, Abass ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

FDG PET; Pneumoconiosis; Pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG UPTAKE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HUMAN; HYPERMETABOLISM; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; LUNG NODULE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIOMEGALY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESSURE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247500746     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000259624.76063.65     Document Type: Article

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