Rheumatoid lung disease as seen on PET/CT scan

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 753-754

  Bagga, Sanjeev ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung nodules; PET CT; Rheumatoid lung disease; Rheumatoid pleural involvement

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUG UPTAKE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG NODULE; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SMOKING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; X RAY FILM;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RHEUMATIC NODULE; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548065963     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e318124fd72     Document Type: Article

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