Diffuse and diffuse-plus-focal uptake in the thyroid gland identified by using FDG-PET: Prevalence of thyroid cancer and Hashimoto's thyroiditis

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 325-330

  Kurata, Seiji ^a   Ishibashi, Masatoshi ^a   Hiromatsu, Yuji ^a   Kaida, Hayato ^a   Miyake, Ikuyo ^a   Uchida, Masafumi ^a   Hayabuchi, Naofumi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Diffuse FDG uptake; FDG PET; Hashimoto's thyroiditis; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG UPTAKE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID NODULE; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34548029694     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-007-0030-2     Document Type: Article

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