Desmoplastic neurotropic melanoma in a patient with trigeminal neuralgia: FDG PET/CT and MRI

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 353-355

  Moulin Romsee, Gerald ^a   Benamor, Myriam ^a   Neuenschwander, Sylvia ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Desmoplastic; FDG; Melanoma; MRI; Neurotropic; PET; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERMETABOLISM; MALE; MELANOMA; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINDLE CELL; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

ADULT; FIBROMA, DESMOPLASTIC; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELANOMA; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 42549128715     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31816a788b     Document Type: Article

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