Endometrioma presenting as a cavitary lung mass with intense 18F-FDG uptake on PET-CT

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 172-175

  Derman, Anna Y ^a   Sperling, Dan ^a   Merav, Avraham ^a   Jain, Vineet R ^a   Levin, Miles ^a   Jana, Suman ^a   Haramati, Linda B ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

18F FDG PET CT; Endometriosis; Lung mass

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG CAVITY; LUNG ENDOMETRIOMA; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHADENECTOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

COUGH; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RARE DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34249876606     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rti.0000213564.40667.c6     Document Type: Article

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