Whole-body MR imaging with the use of parallel imaging for detection of skeletal metastases in pediatric patients with small-cell neoplasms: Comparison with skeletal scintigraphy and FDG PET/CT

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 953-962

  Kumar, Jyoti ^a   Seith, Ashu ^b   Kumar, Atin ^b   Sharma, Raju ^b   Bakhshi, Sameer ^b   Kumar, Rakesh ^b   Agarwala, Sandeep ^b  

^a MAULANA AZAD MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Children; FDG PET CT; Metastases; Small cell neoplasm; Whole body MRI

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTIC SARCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; NEOPLASM; NEUROBLASTOMA; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALL CELL NEOPLASM; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; WHOLE BODY MRI;

ADOLESCENT; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 48549091333     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-008-0921-y     Document Type: Article

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