Localized nodular synovitis mimicking metastatic melanoma in a patient with metastatic melanoma on whole-body F-18 FDG PET/CT with MRI and pathological correlation

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 532-534

  Mahmood, Syed ^a   De Llano, Sofia R Martínez ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hoffa's fat pad; Localized nodular synovitis; Melanoma; MRI; PET; Pigmented villonodular synovitis; PVNS

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; INTERFERON;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MELANOMA; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PIGMENTED VILLONODULAR SYNOVITIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN METASTASIS; WHOLE BODY CT;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS; SYNOVITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 34250791620     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3180646afb     Document Type: Article

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