Teflon granuloma results in a false-positive "second primary" on 18F-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography in a patient with a history of nasopharyngeal cancer

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 251-253

  Chadwick, Jonathon L ^a   Khalid, Ayesha ^a   Wagner, Henry ^a   Stack Jr , Brendan C ^b  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; POLITEF;

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STROBOSCOPY; VOCAL CORD;

AGED; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34250849003     PISSN: 01960709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2006.08.016     Document Type: Article

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